I’ve checked the config that I used (on Linux) and it’s pretty much as above. The only thing I can think of is that you do need to have dynamips running as root for it to connect to the interfaces.

I guess it could make a difference that I was using VMWare Server, but as you get the vmnet interfaces you should be able to bind to them.

I’ll have a play on my mac and see if I can replicate and find a solution.

—– And here’s the update!

On a Mac you have to use a tap interface for dynamips.

You can get it from http://tuntaposx.sourceforge.net/ or use ports to install it. From there it’s pretty much as above but using bridged interfaces in vmware (or virtualbox) onto the tap interfaces

My setup, MAC OS X hosting DYAMIPS/DYNAGEN running 3 routers and one Windows XP VMWare workstation connecting to the MAC on VMNET1. The DYNAGEN environment has two interfaces (f0/0) off two routers bridging one physical interface (en0) to the real LAN, two interfaces (f0/1) off the same two routers into the switch mod of the third router (f1/1-2). the third router has one interface (f0/0) bridging a second interface off the MAC (en2) and an interface (f0/1) attempting to bind to the MACs VMNET1 to allow connectivity to the WinXP workstation. connecting the routers to the ethernet interfaces on the MAC works like a charm using nio_gen_eth:en#. it’s the connection to VMNET1 that fails on startup.

appreciate the assistance, Dan

telnet://servername:22/

And configure PuTTY such as you have done here, would it SSH instead of Telnet into “servername”? I suppose I could call “path\to\putty.exe -ssh …” to ensure that SSH was being used instead of telnet. Perhaps what I really want to do is make use of

putty -load “sessionname”

and then my URL would be more like:

telnet://sessionname/

Actually, I probably want to strip “telnet://” and the trailing slash out of %1 and then put that in as an argument to -load. Hmm. Something like this would be really nice in that I can save in the session all sorts of parameters (telnet vs. ssh, fonts, colors, scroll back buffer size, etc.).