Cisco – GNS3 console speed

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Is there any way to change the console speed globally in GNS3. If you have seen GNS3VAULT videos the terminal speed is so fast but I could not find anywhere how to change the speed on GNS3 to get a faster speed. It get really frustrating when you type fast and the console output is not fast enough. I know that in actual Cisco devices you can change the baud rate when you are connecting via console port or change the line speed but this did not work on GNS3. Any help is appreciated.

Best Answer

I don't have your issue, so I cannot duplicate this. However, I believe this to be what you're describing.

Shows Line 0 has a speed of 9600, type CTY is for console

IOU2(config)#do sh line
    Tty Typ     Tx/Rx    A Modem  Roty AccO AccI   Uses   Noise  Overruns   Int
*     0 CTY              -    -      -    -    -      0       0     0/0       -
    <..snip..>

IOU2(config)#do sh term
Line 0, Location: "", Type: ""
Length: 24 lines, Width: 80 columns
Baud rate (TX/RX) is 9600/9600, no parity, 2 stopbits, 8 databits
   <..snip..>

Change the line speed

IOU2(config)#line 0
IOU2(config-line)#speed 115200

Verification:

IOU2(config)#do sh term
Line 0, Location: "", Type: ""
Length: 24 lines, Width: 80 columns
Baud rate (TX/RX) is 115200/115200, no parity, 2 stopbits, 8 databits
   <..snip..>

In case you're OS has issues, here's what I'm running:

IOU2(config)#do sh ver | i LI
Cisco IOS Software, Linux Software (I86BI_LINUX-ADVENTERPRISEK9-M), Experimental Version 12.4(20090407:185408) [yuiu-redbuild-V124_24_5_6_PIC1 177]
IOU2(config)#