Install Cisco Pagent IOS TGN traffic generator on GNS3

For practicing the CCNP 5.0: Optimizing Converged Cisco Networks (ONT) Labs, you will require to load the R4 with the Pagent IOS image.

What is Pagent IOS ?
Pagent is an enhanced Cisco IOS image that contains both Advanced IP or IP Base Services and the IP traffic generation tools. Pagent generates realistic traffic and bottlenecks to test QoS features such as IP Classification, IP Marking, and Queuing. Pagent was developed within Cisco primarily intended for Cisco internal use only. However, versions for the 2621 and 2801 have been made available to CCNP Academies and instructors by special permission from Cisco’s Pagent group.

Pagent IOS license key

Pagent IOS requires a machine-specific license key. You can get the keys if you are authorized from :

For Cisco customers: [LINK]
For Cisco employees: [LINK]

GNS3/Dynamips support the Pagent IOS by default but users without the valid keys will require to do some creative patching :)

Step 1 : Open “dynamips-wxp.exe” with a HEX editor
Step 2 : Search for the HEX code and replace them (Refer to the list below)
Step 3 : Load the IOS with GNS3
Step 4 : Use the key “407554012371” (without quotes)

HEX Code list : [LINK]

After you HEX you dynamips, you would need to uncompress your IOS [LINK]

July 7, 2011 | Filed Under Network 
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