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#HOW TO INSTALL VIRTUAL PORT DRIVER OF ROUTER INSTALL#
#HOW TO INSTALL VIRTUAL PORT DRIVER OF ROUTER SERIAL#

So after you download the Named Pipe utility, just

#HOW TO INSTALL VIRTUAL PORT DRIVER OF ROUTER SERIAL#

So you can open a connection to a specific TCP port and the utility will redirect it to the serial Pipe. The Named Pipe utility creates a TCP port proxy. Since I will need to copy and paste commands, I decided to use the serial port option as it allowed me to connect to the serial port using Putty. When you first start the installer, it will ask you if you want to use the VM console as the routers ‘console’ port or if you want to use the VMs serial port as the ‘console’ port. ( )įirst to explain why using Named Pipe.

#HOW TO INSTALL VIRTUAL PORT DRIVER OF ROUTER INSTALL#

Download and install ‘Named Pipe TCP Proxy’.You will need a Cisco login account to get it.There are newer versions available, this just happens to be the one I first grabbed when it came out. I am currently using 3.10.0S, which is IOS 15.3(3)S as it is the first release to support(unofficially). Download the ‘Cisco CSR 1000V Series ADVANCED ENTERPRISE SERVICES – ISO’ file from Cisco.But this is good enough to learning purposes.

A paid license is required for higher throughput.

CSR 1000V is free (if you already have a support contract) but extremely low throughput of 2.5Mbps.

Needs to run on a PC that is a Core i5 or better.

So after lots of tweaks and tries, I got it to work the way I wanted.įor this example, I am going to create a router called csr1000v-2. I was quite happy to try as I use Virtual Box a lot. Well, when Cisco released version 3.10, is supported more virtual machines and it looked like it had the possibility to run in Virtual Box.

But Cisco had limited its use to VMWare based technology like ESX and VMWare Player/Workstation. Just a little while back, Cisco released a virtual router called CSR 1000V that can run in a VM.

Virtual networking is becoming more and more popular.