SETTING UP GNS3 WITH ASA HOW TO
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By default, the settings may show the adapter as not being connected so we need to change the status to connected. So that we can connect to our internal network we need to focus on Network adapter 2. The first adapter should be connected and using NAT, this is the interface you are using to connect to EVE-NG, leave this as is, we just need to focus on the other interfaces.

With the assumption that the reader is using VMware, right-click on the EVE-NG VM and navigate to settings where you will find your virtual adapters. This is an important step and gives you a good understanding on how the virtual adapters map to one another within your topologies. Establish pnet to virtual adapter mappings Once your confident that EVE-NG is set up, navigate to the GUI and log into EVE with the default username and password: I would also read the documentation on their website as this will help you get to grips with EVE-NG and help you get started with adding images to use in your topologies.

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If it’s your first time using EVE-NG then I would suggest that you download the community edition which is 100% free. If you’ve not already done so, you will need to head over to the EVE-NG website and download the latest version of EVE-NG. Connect to virtual devices using your physical PC/Laptop.Add static routes to your main PC/Laptop to route to your virtual environment.Configure static and/or dynamic routing between virtual and physical environment.Open GNS3 and configure a routable device before adding it to the internal virtual adapter.Configure a routing device within EVE-NG (This will be used to pass traffic between your virtual and physical environment).

Assigned the relevant role to virtual adapters.

Establish what pnet maps to what virtual adapter.

High-Level OverviewĪs mentioned earlier, I do plan on producing a video that represents this article and with that, I will give you a quick overview of the steps required before looking at them in more detail below. You also have physical equipment that you want to integrate with your virtual environment so that you can test features that just aren’t available on virtual equipment. You recently came across EVE-NG and you’ve decided that you want to start using that but don’t want to have to start from scratch with your current environment. You’ve been using GNS3 for a while now and have an environment set up and configured. So let me start by putting a potential use case out in the wild and hopefully this will give you even more clarity as to why I’m doing this.

SETTING UP GNS3 WITH ASA HOW TO

So without further-a-do, I would like to share how to integrate GNS3 with EVE-NG and physical equipment. As well as creating this article I will be doing a video demonstration because this type of set-up does have a lot of moving parts as you’ll soon realise in this article.

I personally think this is pretty cool and very useful if you want to create complex labs. So one might ask, “what is the point of this article?” If you’ve not already guessed by the title, I’m going to show you how you can integrate GNS3 with EVE-NG and physical equipment if you have some to hand.

I can join both EVE-NG and GNS3 topologies together.

I can maintain two separate virtual simulators.

I will have the ability to maintain my current GNS3 networks without having to start over.

Well…let me answer that before showing you why I’ve decided to use both GNS3 and EVE-NG as my go-to virtual simulators. With that in mind, it’s no wonder why I couldn’t just abandon GNS3 and move over to EVE-NG to start again, so what better way than to just use both of them? I’ve been a GNS3 user for approximately 5 years and within that time i’ve invested a lot of time into creating networks and re-usable environments. Judging by the article so far one would think that i’m favouring EVE-NG but this isn’t the case.

EVE-NG gives you the ability to connect to a web UI rather than having to open an application like GNS3.

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This is a real plus and unlike GNS3, it doesn’t require that you save your configurations externally

When devices are configured in EVE-NG you can save the configurations, power-off the devices and later return to them with the same configurations.

SETTING UP GNS3 WITH ASA UPGRADE

EVE-NG gives you the ability to upgrade without having to re-install everything again, unfortunately GNS3 isn’t that clever.

SETTING UP GNS3 WITH ASA SIMULATOR

It’s rich feature-set and device support closely matches that offered by GNS3 and Virl, making it a strong contender for the go to simulator for creating virtual networks.Ī couple of weeks ago curiosity got the better of me while preparing my plan for the CCIE Security exam so I decided to revisit EVE-NG and see what it could offer me that GNS3 couldn’t. Last year I wrote an article about EVE-NG and how it could be leveraged to create virtual networks.

Setting up gns3 with asa