I don't know how the licensing works for that. If it's for business use like a lab set up within the organisation I'd think it was covered but maybe not suitable for you to take home. But, if you're trying to work with a lab setup, consider getting the actual physical gear. There are a lot of switches, routers, and firewalls out there that, although not the latest, are still quite functional.
And they're available inexpensively or even free. They are copyrighted material, just like Windows or Office and any other procurement method is Not legitimate. Buying used gear is most often technically just as illegal as grabbing the images from some file sharing site because the licenses are not transferable. That said, I carefully reviewed the license for the software that makes my car work and it's not transferable either so in some cases buying a used car is just as illegal technically -- no court would ever entertain that you did something illegal with regard to software licensing in buying a used car.
I expect the automobile manufacturer's lawyer wasn't a software licensing specialist and used a lot of boiler plate text from somewhere else without actually realizing the real implications. Of course there are dozens of Cisco re-sellers that sell used gear and those that do it the official Cisco way sending the equipment back to Cisco for official re-licensing and charging again for the licensing are obviously at a serious pricing disadvantage.
I don't know of any cases of Cisco taking legal action to enforce their intellectual property rights against a re-seller and I'd be very surprised if they took exception to someone using their software in a "virtual" GNS3 environment. If the software images do come from anywhere other than the official Cisco software repository including preinstalled on used gear you really need to check the MD5 signature against the official Cisco version.
There have been reports of compromised IOS images making the rounds. Thanks for the replies, I've managed to get an image, I appreciate the points that you all have made and that the images are copyrighted to Cisco, and I'll be thinking very carefully when next buying a car!
I've used packet tracer and I have 2 router and a switch it just they're noisy, take up space and I though using GNS3 would just be more convenient. You'd think that Cisco would buy GNS3 and sell it of market it. You can also run it on from the Cloud or someone else's computer to give it it's real name. I saw an online network training site that publicly hosted several ios images for download awhile back.
My understanding is that this is completely illegal. I'm not sure how they were getting away with it. Doubt it. That little guy is going to pay for his CCNA and maybe a CCNP and chances are he'll be drinking at least some of the Cisco kool-aid for the rest of his networking life. I'll bet Cisco bank on getting more sales from "on-boarding" Cisco acolytes than they would if they were seen to be harsh with people who, at the end of the day are likely to recommend and use MORE Cisco kit and not less.
The same goes for the "un-official" re-sellers. At the end of the day if a business or whatever buys a bit of Cisco gear, who is going to be making money? And lets be clear, I do not condone illegal file sharing of any kind but come on, lets elevate the thinking beyond the actual small print and live in the real world.
I firmly believe Cisco turns a blind eye to a lot of this "grey market" activity in pursuit of the greater for them good. Doesn't do us Cisco engineers who need lab gear any harm either. All in all I think if Cisco were to start firing law suits across the globe to protect their IOS's especially "old" IOS's would do them a great deal of harm indeed.
Buying used gear is in no way breaking the law. How do you get them? Which is best? Part 2 - YouTube. Please share some Group links. Thanks in advance. I'm sorry but like martin told you, we are not allowed to use image on GNS3. The right way to do that is pay to use an IOS image. Can you share these after buying them? For the year the lease is up? If you encounter a technical issue on the site, please open a support case. Communities: Chinese Japanese Korean.
All Rights Reserved. On cisco side these commands as an example , start with the copy tftp then hit return and it will bring up each prompt. E5 Destination filename [flash]? Loading c6msfc2-jsv-mz. E5 from I think the may support multiple boot statements. If it does, the first valid boot statement will be used, and newly added boot statements append at the end of the list.
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