As the subject says (I'm fishing around on forums as well) I was wondering if I
could use a bunch of USB to ethernet adapters and inject that into GNS3. I was
thinking of selling off my rack of routers (mostly 3640's, 2600's etc) and
buying some 3560's and then getting a full topology going at home to save some
cash money, since I am still out of work.
I thought of doing quad nic's, but the problem is I have a gaming machine, that
has 2 video cards in it (gtx 280's in SLI for your gamer geeks out there) and a
quad core overclocked @ 3.7 with 8 gigs of ram (ddr 2000). I only have ONE pci
slot available. In vista I can run over 20+ routers with barely a scant 35% cpu
usage and still a lot of ram left over, although thinking of going to ubuntu
which I already have installed on another much less powerful machine.
So I am looking for either a break out box, a riser card to a break out box or
whatever solution will work that's not going to break the bank. I saw the quad
nics but those are looking mighty pricey, unless someone knows some secret
place I can snatch.
Thanks for the input!
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