GNS3 1.0 beta Early Release is now available to everyone.

You can read about what GNS3 is here and here .



In short, this is a graphical network simulator, which has many opportunities for emulating network equipment. Up to the current version 1.0, the simulator could not fully emulate second-level switches.

In November last year, the development team announced a crowdfunding company to raise money for the release of a new version, more information about this can be found here .
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In just two weeks, the maximum amount needed for product development was collected.
It was also possible to buy support packages that allowed to get the product at the stage of alpha testing and other opportunities.
Learn more about the participant package and the premium package .

Also, package buyers got access to the GNS3 alpha version (which appeared somewhere in early April).

The main differences of the new version:

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The most important thing in the new version is switch support.

And just recently there was a beta version of GNS3 , which became available to everyone.
You can download it here .