From: Hamilton-Wilkes, Simon (Simon.Hamilton-Wilkes@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Feb 09 2001 - 10:31:34 GMT-3
I agree 1750's aren't ideal because they don't run Enterprise.
On the other hand they are the most cost effective way to do
voice. My question would be whether the simple voice you can perform on
a 1750 could be more cheaply learn't from books/CIM ?
If you want to save money an AGS+ / MGS still makes a good frame switch.
In my opinion, 45/4700's are only worth the extra over one of the 4 port
2500's if you can afford ATM / Faste modules etc.
I know ideally we would all have 5000's or 2900's as our lab switches, but
I'd
much rather spend the money on a couple more 2500's so I can to more complex
BGP/OSPF/IS-IS scenarios. As with the 4000's, a 5000 is a complex beast
with
expensive cards in it, but with just fast ethernet it seems a waste of
money.
I have a 2924XL like you, and I know it's the wrong command set, but it's
enough
to play with multicast etc. I'm lucky in that we have a couple of 5000's
here
at work to play on (ish they're live kit) But I don't see that I could learn
alot from having an almost empty one at home.
Simon Hamilton-Wilkes
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dustin L LaMascus" <lamascus@xs4all.nl>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 6:39 AM
Subject: CCIE Home lab
> Sorry for the duplicate message but I seem to have forgoten the subject on
the
> last, somewhat important in a setting like this.
>
> Greetings all,
> I am trying to build a (home) CCIE pratice lab. I need to work within a
budget
> (cheap as possible but still alot of features). If I can stay under the
15K
> mark I would be able to sleep at night.. 10K and I would smile while
sleeping
> :-) I would imagine that several of you have done some leg work on this
> already. I am aware of some missing components (token, ATM) but I am
trying to
> concentrate on the core stuff. I threw voice in b/c I am VERY lacking in
this
> and I hear it will become more important.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
> BTW I already own the 2924, and the numbers are memory (DRAM/Flash)
>
> Here is what I have outlined so far:
> Terminal server 2509/2510 4 8
> Access Router 1 2501 16 16
> Access Router 2 2501 16 16
> Access Router 3 1750 32 8
> Access Router 4 1750 32 8
> WAN Cloud 4000 32 8
> Switch 1 5000 32 4
> Switch 2 2924XL-EN 8
>
> Voice Module for 1750 VIC-2FXS
> Voice Module for 1750 VIC-2FXS
> 4 Port Serial Module for 4000 NP-4T=
> FEnet switching module 5002 WS-X5113
> supervisor engine module WS-X5540
>
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