After much digging around, I found a bunch of stuff on how to get an emulated CCIE Security Lab set up, with the exception of the Concentrator (can’t be emulated, but can be connected externally). The components that go into emulating the lab are: GNS3 (front-end to Dynagen/Dynamips) and VMware.
GNS3 allows for emulation of various Cisco Routers as well as the PIX Firewall, which should be good enough for the lab exam. VMware can be used to emulate the IPS, as well as Cisco ACS running on Windows 2k3 Server. These can all be then connected into the Dynamips cloud. At the moment, I have all the pieces running separately - GNS3, ACS and IPS. Once I have all the pieces working together, I’ll write up another post (part 2). Meanwhile, if you have any questions about how to get the pieces working, feel free to ask - I’ll try to answer the best I can.
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