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Potential Home Lab Setup - Thoughts?
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| -=Rage=- 2003-07-02, 1:38 am |
| Hi guys, I havn't been keeping up with Cisco changes for the last little while and since its summer I decided to start brushing up and enjoying some more cisco press nights 
I was looking into purchasing the following - what are your thoughts?
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2501
2502
2503
2509
2513
2520
2524 enterprise
Catalyst 2820
Cisco 802 (old school 1 ISDN U, 1 ETH)
B-Link 2 isdn sim
2x USR 56k External Modems
all cables, trancievers etc.
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its a package, so I'm trying to figure out if i'll need anything extra
My goal is to be setup to study and complete my CCNP and then move up and use the routers with lab sims from nli, fatkid etc to earn my way into a CCIE (god willing!)
I realize voice and atm will have to be done on a rack, ditto for the 3500
can anyone see major problems?
I'm trying to grab for $2500 USD for the bundle off a good friend. All new IOS's.
Thanks in advance for any input!
-Rage | |
| Carl_Docklands 2003-07-02, 7:14 am |
| If I were doing this again, I would buy two 29xxXL switches and two 26xx series routers for my CCNP studies. There was so much i had to learn with regards to trunking that i just couldnt do on my single 3550 switch.
The 25xx series routers are a waste of time however you will need one as a frame relay switch. If you do buy 26xx series routers dont make the mistake i made, buy them with at least 16mb flash and 32mb ram.
If you want to go for the CCIE R&S, add your 3550 and 3 more 26xx routers into the lab. | |
| darthfeces 2003-07-02, 9:54 am |
| no,
i don't think they're a waste of time ....
you just need a more diverse lab now ....
2600's 3550's etc whatever you can afford.
2500's are still good for adding more routers to your lab ie more routers = more complex labs ......
they can act as route generators, backbone routers, fr switch.
i configure loopbacks on tr routers since I still have a couple.
when you do a lab that requires 7 or 8 routers you'll be glad you have them arround.
there just not the core of a lab anymore
for instance they could be a bgp peer simulating a large wan. | |
| -=Rage=- 2003-07-02, 10:45 pm |
| Good call on using the extra as bgp sims,
If i'm not mistaken, was there not some software you can additionally use to simulate BGP traffic from a large number of hosts?
If anyone remembers the name, or even a website or two I would appreciate it!
-Shane/Rage | |
| darthfeces 2003-07-03, 11:13 am |
| yeah
you might find that out by searching the
groupstudy archives.
i prefer to do it all w bgp peers.
the more practice the better |
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