Alright...this took a little more time than I had hoped, but my initial GNS3 lab is done. I designed this initial lab to test through most of the Cisco CCENT concepts. I'm planning on posting this on the Network World blog I'm running this month tomorrow, but figured I'd post it here first. The GNS3 topology is using a 2600 series router / image (I figured many people could get ahold of one of these images either via a SmartNet contract or Ebay). The exact image I used is c2600-i-mz.123-26.bin.

The lab itself isn't as pretty as I'd like, but I primarily wanted to get something out there with a template to create other labs. I borrowed heavily from the style of labs that Interface Technical Training (aka Mike Storm) uses for this, which I've found to be very effective.

Let me know if you find any glaring errors or have suggestions for the template / look and feel.

The GNS3 Lab Topology is here: http://www.ciscoblog.com/docstore/CCENT.net (Right-click and do a Save As File)
The Lab itself is here: http://www.ciscoblog.com/docstore/GNS3Lab1.pdf

***UPDATE: It seems the lab topology only opens on OS X. Let me see if I can get the Windows version working...

***UPDATE2: The topology works on Windows (doesn't look as pretty as OS X) as long as you're running GNS 0.5 and have loaded an IOS image for a 2620-2621 router.

My next steps are to build out the gns3labs.com site and make a repository for these labs. Ehhhh...where do I get all this time? Honestly, I do most of this while my students in class are working on labs themselves :o).

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