that video was wicket I love it.

Thanks David... I would like to addon the way in which if you dont have the physical or USB ethernet. Goto Start -> run -> hdwwiz -> Select install the hardware manually -> Select Network Adapter -> Select Microsoft -> Select "Microsoft KM Test Loopback Adapter" Again Go to Start -> run -> ncpa.cpl -> Select above created adapter i.e. Microsoft KM Test Loopback Adapter and assign the IP address to it from same subnet i.e. router's IP and Network adapter IP should be in same subnet. Within Virtual Machine, while adding the bridged network adapter, for at that time select above created "Microsoft KM Test Loopback Adapter" Remaining all the steps are very well explained by David.

I struggled big time getting that first ping out into the real world and after looking through what feels like an ocean of misleading guides I landed on this one; everything worked on the spot after following it. I'm definitely going to recommend your channel to my networking friends. Thank you so much for explaining what everything did and why you did it the way you did.

Just thanks, and thanks again David! It seems like any problem I encounter on my journey with GNS3, CML, networking in general... you have a video with a clear and concise solution. Its amazing your breadth of content. So thanks again for all you do, it is very, very much appreciated.

It has been five years since you created this video, and it is still valid. I'm using GNS3 vers 2.2.39

Thank You Mr.David Bombal for making wonderful videos , Its really wonderful to have theoretical as well as practical knowledge from your learning . Really helpful . Keep it up Sir .

Perfect guide! This way just worked for me on my Windows 10 local machine with GNS3 2.1.8. I was stuck when I used my physical interface on my local machine for the 'Cloud', but it solved by using GNS3 VM's interface.

Thank you for this. Still on the 1st half of your Udemy CCNA course and have more courses in my cart. Videos like this one are gold.

Thank you SO MUCH! I was using the legacy method (Cloud NIO via local GNS3), but I didn't realize that it should be done via the VM. Thank you.

Thank you so much David,watched your videos and installed GNS3 VM and every your instruction helped me. Brilliant,just brilliant

Your channel has been very helpful through my CCNA studies, keep up the good work!!

David, you are very smooth while you talk which takes away anxiety while learning catching up stuff. But i was panicked, when i heard a WARNING buzz, lol

i have had problems using other instructors techniques to get gns3 connected to my network...but this guy helped me (again) !!

you saved me. Excellent explanation on why using eth2 and where it came from VMWare. Very clear! Thank you so much!!!

Thank You David ! Finally a great solution (without MS looopback interface). You saved me a lot of time with this video. It works great ! I've made it with Virtual Box, but this makes no difference. Thank you again !!

Spot on! Works as a charm for bridging instead of NATing.

Thank you for this video, it shined light in the darkness how to set this up !!!!

I'm glad you warn people, about bridging with WIFI cards. I tried that in the past, thats very painfull to get working. As i have understood the problem, it is the AP that will not accept other MAC addresses, than the connected WIFI card. So you would basically, need the software to make it look like all trafic going through was from the WIFI card. (Kinda like PAT)

Thanks for the tutorial. I did it with my wifi network adaptor. I've shared the connection from my wifi adataptor and had cuztimized the the 3rd GNS3 VM network adatptor to VMnet8 which i have shared with my physical wifi adapator. Sorry for my english. It works fine.

another straight forward lesson thank you sir easy to understand.

Thank You So so so much Sir I was stuck at a problem nothing helped me until I watched this of yours Video ...... Thank YOu So mUch sir , Great Video

Hi , the built in network adapter problem its your pc or is it on all pc's? I ask you that because i have had many problems using my built in network ethernet adapter

You are my Master!! Saved me AGAIN! lol

What is the model of usb-ethernet adapter that you are using ? Can we also connect to a real switch and does the adapter support vlan tagging ?

Hello, how to reconnect GNS3 VM with LAN->USB adapter? I don't wanna use my NIC, but that adapter. Is that possible?

Thanks Bombal, you alwasy save my time.

You're a lifesaver MATE! :)

Thanks for the video @david. I have one requirement and I would like to know whether it can be possible in GNS3 or not. Want to create a complex network with Routers, Switches combination and I want to assign IP address of my local netwowrk to each GNS3 device. Lets say my laptop has 172.30.1.5 and I want to give IPs to GN3 VMs in 172.30.1.xx series so that I can reach each simulated device in GNS3. If I can achieve this then I can enable SNMP on each device and do SNMPWalk and identify the network topology.

I use GNS3 VM on a remote ESXi server, what's best practice for me to connect GNS3 to my physical network?

Hey David, Is it possible to have physical devices represented in GNS3? I want to have my physical lab appear in gns3 and be able to console into them via the GNS3 GUI. I have one usb cable that splits into 8 console cables. What do you think? Please let me know. Thank you.

Perfect as usual, thank you so much!

Thank you so much, you're awesome

Hello David. Thank you for the video. I just got a query on this. As you said your PC is in VLAN 10 do you have a switch between the PC and the physical router? Does the switch has VLANS on it and doing router on stick ok the physical router? Just confused on this. Thank you

Hi David thanks for your informative vids but you made a statement that the NAT device doesn't allow ingress to GNS3, not sure if I got you right but I've used the NAT device as a way to use ASDM to the Mgmt interface of my ASAv device in GNS3. You just need to check the subnet being used for vmnet8 if you are using VMWare Workstation and you can use this as your mgmt subnet....it's ok for messing around.

DO we need to perform any configuration at the physical network side for this to work. @David Bombal

beautiful voice and beautiful presentation

Hello David and all, I have struggling to access a CentOS host in VirtualBox inside GNS3 from my local computer which runs on Mint. When I drag the CentOS inside the GNS3, I choose the GNS3 VM as the server. I almost spent 20 hours work on this. I am not sure this is a problem from GNS3 or more packages need to be installed on Mint etc. Maybe I am making mistakes. Any help or tutorials would be appreciated.

Hello David, I am working with Mikrotik routers. Actually I can connect to external physical network via GNS3 as inserting my Mikrotik Routers on my topology. But I get much more packet loss when I get worked on pinging gateway and external world. So how can I get solve of that? My configurations are... microsoft loopback adaptor creation with sharing my ethernet NIC, and that to cloud. After that I get my packet loss too... :(

Is there a way to set this up with using GNS3 on ESXi? I have a remote server running ESXi and I have GNS3 VM installed on it. On a separate PC I have gns3 installed and only connect to the remote server on ESXi (no local GNS VM or server setup). Is there a way to bridge the connection this way?

You are the boss, David!

Mate you're a hero. Cheers.

YOU ARE MY LIFELINE, THANKS.

David, i don't know if you already now that, but i had problems exatcly the way you said about ethernet card realtek gbe family . Everything was working fine until i reboot my notebook and the bridge didn't work anymore. After a couple of hours trying to understand it, i found a way to make it work again. I went into virtual network editor and in vmware0 i chose my real ethernet card (realtek gbe) instead of automatic bridge. That made my vm bridge works again... for now! lol

will this work with 1921 routers? 1921 images i know are not supported in GNS3.. but would it work doing it this way?

Hi David Thanks for the video. I am trying this on MAC with Fusion. I have installed GNS3 2.1.8 with VM version 0.10.14 on my mac running high sierra. I added 3rd adapter to GNS3 VM with bridged mode. Topology looks like ... cloud eth2 --- R1---R2. On R1 and R2 i have given ip address to the interfaces. Now i can ping GNS3VM from my mac. But i am not able to ping any router. i want to do ssh into my GNS3 routers from my mac. I know the SSH configuration and all. I can get it working for R1 if i give interface address from my GNS3VM network. but then i cant ping any other interface or for that matter i cant reach to R2 even if routing configured as you have shown in part 1,2 of this series. is there any issue with MAC GNS3 2.1.8 combination?

sir can we use wifi adapters to gain internet access in GNS3 topology , as wifi NIC wont supports so !?

Hi Sir, I am facing the same problem what you have said in the video that use USB Ethernet card in the place of laptop Ethernet card. Is there any other way to achieve that. Please suggest. Thanks Pawan Kumar Singh

Preach Doctor!

Thanks for the video. My setup uses a ESXi GNS3 appliance. The cloud connections to NOS's and hosts in GNS3 are very very very slow via the cloud connection, why is this? Anyway to speed them up?

can you make a similar video for baremetal gns3 ?

thanks for this, David

Hi I have a server on which I am running ESXI and running virtual machine windows 10 in that. I have installed gns3 in that Virtual machine and now I am trying to connect devices in that GNS3 which is running in the virtual machine to my Physical rack. When I bridge the Virtual machine NIC to gns3 using loopback I am able to get the IP on the GNS3 router using DHCP with default gateway. But I am unable to reach the internet from that GNS3 router or my physical rack.

where have u made use of the cloud after connecting it to the network?

Thanks for the clear/concise video, but I am having trouble getting to the internet. I am using a USB adapter, I followed the video and I get a dhcp assigned address, I also enable "ip domain-lookup" but I still can't ping google.com or the default gateway.

Thank you so much!

Thanks a lot Mister Bombal

Can you explain this for ESXI GNS3 VM installation? please

Hi David, how can i add a network adapter as bridge mode when the GNS3 Server is located as a remote VM in a VMWare server?

Hi David, what's the relationship between the Realtek USB GbE Adapter and the 'Bridged' Adapter created in the GNS3VM?

your videos are great man

I have been at it all day trying to do this in AWS. I am running GNS3 on a Windows 2016 server in AWS. Does anyone know of a way to get a GNS3 router to talk to devices in the local AWS VPC?

I am not able to connect my GNS3 2.1.21 VM to physical network, Can anyone help

Thanks a Lot!!!

Hello Mr. Bombal - How can you accomplished this using a MacBook pro?

david sir please reply. when u bridge the adapter to the gns vm. which adapter is getting used in this case , ur computer's physical ethernet adapter or that usb adapter ?

Does anyone know how to connect mac physical machine to GNS3 VM devices? I am not able to create tap0 interface

very useful !!!!!!

Amazing. Can you do this on EVE-NG?

Dear David, why I am having 60% packet loss while trying to ping a Router in GNS3 topology from my Physical PC?

thanks

Could you explain where is a DHCP server? Can I assign static ip address without usin DHCP?

Hello David , I need Open CLI Cloud Because I need Give Two Interface IP Can You Help me

David, Not sure if you still reply on here due to the age of this video. I have a 4 port NIC and I would like to have all of those ports available to GNS3 to connect physical devices and I'm having trouble getting them all to work. It seems you can only bridge one adapter. I would like to be able to connect a router to each of these to communicate with GNS3. Do you have any guidance? Thank you in advance and I hope you're having a great day.

HELP!! i have followed this but my R2 router cannot receive an IP address from the Cloud. My VMware VM has the 3 adapters just like yours. I am not sure what i am doing wrong. A packet capture between the two shows that the Discover messages are leaving the router but no one is responding to offer an IP it appears. I have turned off my windows firewall, restarted GNS3 application and VM but same issue. Can anyone advise what i am doing wrong?

Hello David, I appreciate your video and I need your help, I am implementing CME in GNS3, and I have had 2 doubts: a) When I upload to the Flash the files for the FW of the phones, acd, ringtone, etc. I see them in the flash if problem, except, and if I turn off the CME they are no longer there, what I need to do to make them stay in the flash. b) I am configuring subinterfaces on port f0 / 0 for the voice and data vlan: 192.168.10.254/24 for data. 192.168.20.254/24 for voice. DCHP for both VLANs I have physical switch 2950 and this configured port f0 / 24 as trunk. And ports F0 / 1 - 16 with membership to both VLANs. I have physical PCs connected to ports f0 / 1 -16 I do not know what IP should carry the NIC of the PC that has GNS3 and CME running on it. I already put the same as the data vlan, one from the same data segment. But I do not receive IP from the DCHP, although I do get from the PCs to the data DG. Therefore, the CIPCs that I have in the PCS are not registered in the CME. If I change the GNS3 and put an actual CME everything works. I'm doing something wrong, I hope you can help me.

thank you :)

DEAR, I TRIED TO SSH FROM HOST UNIT WHERE GNS3 IS INSTALLED TO A ROUTER IN GNS3 CONNECTING VIA CLOUD TO THE REAL NETWORK BUT THE MESSAGE WAS NETWORK ERROR CONNECTION REFUSED. ANY SUGGESTION?

very helpfull

Graciaaaaaas

When I add new Network Adapter as network connection bridged in the GNS3 VM then I not reseive DHCP addres. Its only working when NAT is configured on Network Adapter. Any Ideas?

but how do you add mikrotik routers like you did 3:39

I have followed the steps, adapter 1 is for host network and 3 is bridged network(using wired), my appliance is connected to cloud e2 but my appliance is not getting ip from the bridged network, it is getting ip from the host network. I have tried to completely reset the topology but the issue still remains, going to ask around in the community but checking here first to see if anyone has experienced the same and if there was any resolution. ty

I still do know understand. can you show us how to ssh/telnet from a physical pc to router/switch in gns3

i cannot ping google and my gateway of last resort is 0.0.0.0 what sould i do?

Thanks a lot, all fine except too much redundant repeats of "jinusfre"

i am getting packet loss

every time i look up how to do this, i find this video and it is not helpful at all because this is the only thing that comes up for doing this. Your video fails to explain where the bridge interface you're using comes from. I've looked at part 1 and everywhere else and I cant find a reference to the bridge interface you're using nor how I'm supposed to let other PCs connect to the virtual routes across my local network. If this is really bridged into the real world, it doesnt really seem to be bridged to anything but outside the VM on my own PC and nothing else will allow connections. Can you please provide any explanations as to where the bridge interface is coming from that I am supposed to point virtual box at to get this to allow outside connections to the routers on the inside of the VM

why there are dislikes smh

Hello, how to reconnect GNS3 VM with LAN->USB adapter? I don't wanna use my NIC, but that adapter. Is that possible?