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Tweaking Cisco ACS V5.2 to work within Oracle VirtualBox

Hi All I wanted to setup ACS in my virtual environment but didn't have a copy of any paid VMWARE products so I persevered and managed to get the ACS fully working with Oracle Virtual Box. What you need; 1.      A copy of 'Cisco ACS V5.2 Any Server Edition' 2.      CD/DVD Software tool used to Extract, Modify and Create ISO Image – for step 'Modifying the ISO'. This will also need a boot loader extracter. 3.      Oracle Virtual Box 4.      An Operating System Modifying the ISO Extracting, Modify and recreating the ISO image. You can skip this and try to make a 61GB VDI but I didn't want to use that much disk space so this is why I completed this step. It does take a lot of effort. 1.      Save 'Boot Image using MagicIso' 2.      Extract contents of ISO using MagicIso into a directory of your choice. 3.      Open KS.CFG file within root of ISO image within extracted files. 4.      Modify this line

Cisco GNS3 Easy VPN - Configuration

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I have been using GNS3 to simulate a simple network whereby using Easy VPN on the client to create a secure tunnel for various subnets. I could not get it to work until I read this post on the internet where the user in the forum created a Virtual Machine and then tried to connect to the local network again using Easy VPN and it worked. Below is a copy of my basic network. The virtual machine has been configured with the following address; 192.168.10.100 255.255.255.0  and is  connected to Microsoft Loopback Adapter. Microsoft Loopback Adapter has the following settings; 192.168.10.254 255.255.255.0 If you are interested in the configuration of routers R2 and R3, see below.  Take it easy. ******* Router 2 ******** ! ! version 12.4 service timestamps debug datetime msec service timestamps log datetime msec no service password-encryption ! hostname R2 ! boot-start-marker boot-end-marker ! no logging buffered enable secret 5 $1$wH3W$WFnrzTTPaaq