Are
Dynamip's days numbered or will it be here for a long time yet? The reason this question popped into my head is reading on the superb
IOS Hints and Tricks blog that the new
IOS only supports one of the
Dynamips platforms namely the 7200. Read the post
here. That would be bad enough on it's own but then I read on the
Network Ninja blog and
Joe Harris's blog that
Cisco is slowly planning to roll out it's software activation and licensing feature. So what does this all mean for
Dynamips, are it's days numbered or will someone come up with a way to get round these obstacles? Not sure what will happen but I do think that it is
definitely in
Cisco's interest to allow people to access it's software for learning purposes. The more engineers that are trained in
Cisco technologies the more potential customers
Cisco will have. I have also seen rumors that
Cisco has it's own emulation software that internal staff can use, so if they do and they kill
Dynamips maybe they can release it to the community. If Richard or Joe or someone else who works for
Cisco can confirm if they do have their own internal emulation software that would be most helpful :-)
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