Connecting Mikrotik in GNS3
Attaching Mirkotik x86 to GNS3. its quite easy anyway in ubuntu you need the qemu multicast patch , you can download qemu v13 patch ( http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/gns-3/Qemu/qemu-0.13.0-patches.zip) and Qemu source (http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-0.13.0.tar.gz) please check the following post to how to patch the qemu. (http://blog.gns3.net/2009/10/olive-juniper/2/) Installation requires Mikrotik x86 version(http://download.mikrotik.com/mikrotik-5.2.iso) and qemu image which can be created as follows qemu-img create -f raw mtik.img 128M In GNS3 please check whether qemuwrapper working properly ( you need to copy 2 python files distributed with GNS3) -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 868374 2011-05-08 09:22 pemubin.py -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34162 2011-05-08 09:21 qemuwrapper.py if all are setup you can create the qemu host as follows. If you want to connect through winbox please follow the following post to create the tap interface : http://www.kbrandt.com/2009/