https://8bd9e53a.aww-3cz.pages.dev/tags/iou/ Recent content in Iou on Aaron's Worthless Words Hugo en Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://8bd9e53a.aww-3cz.pages.dev/posts/2011/05/home-grown-iou-scripts/ Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://8bd9e53a.aww-3cz.pages.dev/posts/2011/05/home-grown-iou-scripts/ <p>I&rsquo;m sure you&rsquo;ve all heard of Cisco IOU by now, and I&rsquo;m finally catching up with the other bloggers of the world by mentioning it.  It&rsquo;s an executable version of an IOS image that runs on a Unix (or Unix-like) platform and it&rsquo;s the backend behind <a href="https://learningnetworkstore.cisco.com/market/prod/listSubCatLearnLab.se.work?TRGT=85&amp;/nxt/rcrs/=2559&amp;utm_source=go-shortcut&amp;utm_medium=mixed&amp;utm_content=go-url&amp;utm_campaign=promo-cll">Cisco&rsquo;s Learning Labs</a>.  Instead of running an emulator and loading up various images, you just run the executable and you&rsquo;re on the console of a Cisco router.  It has layer 2 support, so you can fire up switches as well.  Being a binary makes it way more efficient than GNS3 will ever be, and the layer 2 support is a wonderful, wonderful feature to have.</p>