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BGP/Router Question
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| Yankee or anyone. Do you know what the least amount of hardware is that I could get by with in studying for my CCNP exam. We have routers here at work that I work with on a daily basis but can't do to much in playing around. Could I get by with a couple of 1600 series routers? Do they support BGP or do I need to spend the money on 2501's. Would like to stick to a budget.
Thanks,
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| LanLord, thanks for the reply. I'll check into it. I don't think that a couple of 1600 back to back is going to cut it though. I think I need more than that. Probably a token ring interface in one of them and some other goodies. Could use any info on what I would all need to suffice my lab. | |
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| I'm not a real good one to answer that question because I haven't ever set up a lab to study. I have done setups to try and figure something out for work but never just for me.
The ACRC concentrated alot on OSPF and we don't use that at work so I don't get to see it, but I was still able to read the books and get the general understanding of it. I doubt even with a small lab you could do much other then ***** the surface of BGP.
What routing protocol do you use at work? If it is either EIGRP or OSPF you should be able to do enough show commands to look at the tables to get an idea of how things work and then reading may be able to fill in the gaps with the other protocols.
Like I said, I'm the wrong one to ask this one!
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| I think you're right at that one. I see alot of people buying routers on ebay, but I really think it will take alot more than a couple of routers, a switch, etc. to get a good education of it. At work we use IGRP and EIGRP. Our core router is a 3640 and 2610's at the remotes. I administrate all of these. I could come in on Sundays and play around "if needed". We have a 2611 as our internet router. We also have 3524&3548 switches. Never used OSPF or BGP. You said you passed the ACRC test? I assume this is without a lab at home? If so, that's great news for me and probably someone else. I probably have access to enough equipment but I guess I need someone to second that.
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| Yep, passed the ACRC and CLSC with no lab at home. We also use EIGRP at work, but I didn't spend anytime poking around looking at topology tables or anything. I generally find that the books are sufficient to give me an understanding of how it works.
Good luck to ya,
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| Can you refer some good books to pass these exams. I just finished with the CCNA 2.0 exams
Regards
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| I always recommend the Cisco Press books for each exam. Haven't seen a bad one (except maybe the CLSC, but that was just a plain bad exam).
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