Client URL (CURL) is available in Windows 10 and can be used to test client to server connectivity.

For example, it can be used to check connectivity to a remote server web page where we expect to get a 200 OK returned from the server.

The following command can be used to on the command line to test for a response from the web page and show the HTTP header:

curl -I <enter url of web page here>

curl –help

Latest GNS3 uses Solar Putty for the console session and is not easy to copy screen output to a text file. Open up a second Custom Console session and choose Putty will allow you to capture the output to a log filename and the commands typed in Putty will also appear on the Solar Putty screen.

The universal 5520 switch needs some additional configuration to access the management protocols such as SSH as they are Firewalled off by a new security feature in the VOSS software, essentially configure the required management VLAN, the VLAN IP and add an IP route under NLS Configuration…

#

NLS CONFIGURATION

#

mgmt vlan 10
mac-offset 0
ip address 192.168.10.10/24
ip route 0.0.0.0/0 next-hop 192.168.10.1 weight 200
enable
force-topology-ip
exit

I have a static route for destination network 10.10.10.0/24 which I wish to redistribute into BGP from within VRF red, here is an example of how that redistribution works with a route-map and prefix-list on VOSS.

router vrf red
ip prefix-list “v10” 10.10.10.0/24 id 1 ge 24 le 24
exit

router vrf red
route-map “v10” 1
permit
enable
match network “v10”
exit
exit

router vrf red
ip bgp redistribute static
ip bgp redistribute static enable
ip bgp redistribute static route-map “v10”

exit

ip bgp apply redistribute static vrf red

Note: BGP configuration not shown is assumed to be in place.