Dynamips Blew Up On Me

It was bound to happen. I’ve been doing a lot of labs with Dynamips using 4 routers as 1 switch. Today I started doing some BGP labs that required 5 routers. Dynamips kept dumping its core (ewww!). I tried to isolate the issue to a single router instance, but couldn’t do it. I finally realized that as soon as the IOS loaded on the 6th device (7th if you count the Frame Relay switch) Dynamips would crash. This is probably due to my laptop. I only have 512Meg of RAM. I had planned to drop 2 Gigs in it, but Dynamips had been chugging along fine up until today.

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