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1600 Series Suitable CCNA?
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| Neil Alex Lee 2003-09-24, 10:27 am |
| Are the 1600 series useful for practicing for the CCNA?
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| You should be fine, something with back2back capability would have been
nice, but you can still practice access-lists and routing with it..
"Neil Alex Lee" <2112@xanadu.com> wrote in message
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| Paul Lawrie 2003-09-25, 8:25 am |
| Sure. I'd recommend the 1601 or 1601R because they both have an ethernet and
serial interface. Together with a cheap back-to-back cable from ebay you can
run frame-relay and OSPF etc between two of them.
The1601R-1605R series differs from the 1601-1605 in that the OS is
decompressed from flash at boot time and stored in (and run from) DRAM. This
means that you can store bigger IOS images in the expensive flash. Of
course, this means the R-series requires more DRAM. Typically the 1600's
will often be seen standard with 2MB while the 1600R's will be seen with 8MB
standard onboard (upgradable to 24MB).
Beware of the IOS version though if you shop on ebay. A lot will still have
11.3 or older installed. Don't expect to run much more than 12.0 though
unless you're prepared to budget in some RAM and possibly flash upgrades.
The 1600 series will also accept a single WAN Interface Card too, so you
could possibly add another serial interface if you decide to move onto CCNP
studies.
Hope this helps,
Paul.
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