I used both Mac OSX terminal (to telnet to the GNS3/Ubuntu box) and also the gnome terminal when I was sitting next to the Ubuntu box. The only reason for these is the Mac had a nice comfy leather couch and later I bought a decent office chair for the PC running Ubuntu.
As for using wine to run Secure CRT (or some other windows program) I personally advise against it. Here is why: In the lab you are thrown WAY out of your comfort zone. You may think that "I want to make my home experience as close to the lab as possible, so I will try to set up my PC the same" might work... But nothing like that can make you 100% ready for sitting down in the chair of your favourite lab testing centre. If the environment in the lab exam is slightly different from your home lab what will you do? Panic? Be OK? Be somewhere in the middle? However if you _know_ that your terminal program (for example) WILL be different from the real one then that is one less thing to worry about when the day comes. FWIW - the first time I ever used SecureCRT was when I sat the lab exam. Cheers, Matt CCIE #22386 CCSI #31207 On 11 April 2010 01:26, Mark Hanley <[email protected]> wrote: > Which terminal client do you use on your Ubuntu? I am working on building > one now, and was thinking about using wine/securecrt. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Hill > Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 11:06 AM > To: nicholas golden > Cc: CCIE_RS OnlineStudyList > Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] GNS3 on Windows 7 > > Seriously FFS. > > It takes about 20 mins to install ubuntu on a dual boot machine. This > includes the partition resizing on the cd you download. > > Windows is CRAP at this stuff. Stop messing with it, stop asking why > you cant get it to work and just go with what does work. > > I have "basic user" level unix knowledge and I got a windows machine > dual booted, GNS3 installed, and a full topology running faster than > what a windows box takes to log into a domain and open outlook. > > This stuff makes me want to scream!!!! > > Matt > > CCIE #22386 > CCSI #31207 > > On 11 April 2010 00:58, nicholas golden <[email protected]> wrote: >> Lol @ Matt. >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Matt Hill <[email protected]> >> To: Vikas Sharma <[email protected]> >> Cc: CCIE_RS OnlineStudyList <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sat, April 10, 2010 7:38:36 AM >> Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] GNS3 on Windows 7 >> >> You can optimise it by installing Ubuntu. >> >> Cheers, >> Matt >> >> CCIE #22386 >> CCSI #31207 >> >> On 10 April 2010 21:21, Vikas Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi Joe, >>> I read the blog on how to optimize GNS3 on W7 and would request some help >>> on >>> one thing. >>> In the "Preferences" section under "General" I modified the "Terminal >>> Command" to read as follows: >>> c:\Program Files\VanDyke Software\SecureCRT\SecureCRT.EXE /script >>> c:\IPEXPERT\IPEXPERT\supporting files\securecrt.vbs /arg %d >>> /T /telnet 127.0.0.1 %p & sleep 1 >>> Now, the issue is that with the /telnet option when I try to launch >>> console >>> I get the message "Invalid command line option /telnet". >>> I then removed the /telnet option and this time securecrt launches but >>> then >>> I get the message "Hostname lookup failed: host not found". >>> Can you let me know what I'm missing out here. I modified the net file >>> that >>> I downloaded from the blog itself so I've configured the parameters as > per >>> the recommendations of the blog. I only need to get securecrt working. >>> Cheers, >>> Vikas. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please >>> visit www.ipexpert.com >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please >> visit www.ipexpert.com >> >> > _______________________________________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > visit www.ipexpert.com > > _______________________________________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > visit www.ipexpert.com > _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com
