Why do people buy physical equipment for their networking homelabs

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>>56292824
>network simulator is the same as the real thing
Oh boy.

>>56292852

>Limiting yourself to only a few switches and routers when you could be building complex topologies.

>>56292867

>he doesn't know about netem

Also
>>56292867
>implying those complex topologies will be correct when network simulators, ns3 included, are notoriously bad at simulating networks

>>56292904

GNS3 isn't packet tracer.

>>56292966
???

I never said it was

>>56293000

No, but GNS3 doesn't have problems simulating complex things, unlike packet tracer or even viral

>>56293047

https://github.com/GNS3/dynamips/issues

>>56292824
>Why do people buy physical equipment for their networking homelabs when GNS3 is mature enough now to handle everything?
Because it is generally stuck using old IOS versions because Cisco changed the licensing model with IOS 15.