From: sam (sam@avtechusa.com)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 20:39:13 GMT-3
In Truth, I feel that speed and accuracy is an important thing in the
lab.
I have a sizeable lab at home like most of you guys would. I use it to
practice on all of my IGPs, redistribution, policy routing, QoS and so
forth...
I have a 2509, 5 2501s, a 4000 (Frame relay), a 2620 (For the fast
ethernet and voice) and a Cat 5000. All bought off ebay and upgraded
(Flash/RAM)at a fraction of the cost of those 'preassembled' labs. (No
offense... I'm poor ;> )
To practice on the more extensive components of the exam such as ISDN,
ATM, Voice and of course the 3550, you can rent lab time at one of many
commercially available rack rental sites. Do your homework first and
prepare a few labs if possible to practice on the equipment, that way
you don't have to waste precious hours setting up IP Addressing and
such.
I figured out a long time ago that the money that I could invest
upgrading my lab to an awesome 'all inclusive' CCIE lab would cost more
than all the hours of online lab-time I would use anyway.
I could sell the equipment afterwards to recoup my investment.. but
frankly, I've gotten pretty attached to my rack!
My 2c
Sam Sena
4500 New Brunswick Ave
Piscataway NJ
(732) 424-8008 (o)
(732) 424-7388 (f)
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Stong, Ian C [GMG]
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:14 PM
To: Nagarajan M; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: Lab equipment list.
That really depends on how much you have to spend and whether you want
to be
able to do everything or plan on renting some rack time for the more
expensive technologies. For the basics to cover the core routing
protocols
you can get by with three 2501's or 2610's or 4500's. You will need
16/16
of flash and memory at a minimum to run the 12.1 IOS feature set with
some
of the bells and whistles. Get some DTE/DCE cables to interconnect the
serial ports and some AUI transceivers if buying 2500's. A hub or
switch
would be good to have to interconnect the Ethernet (unless you just want
to
do point to point in which case you just need crossover cat5 cables).
The next steps would be to buy routers with ISDN interfaces and also buy
an
ISDN simulator. Then you could also spend a small fortune to buy a
catalyst
3550, routers with Voice ports, ATM switch and ATM ports and so forth.
Ian
http://www.ccie4u.com
Rack Rentals and Lab Scenarios
-----Original Message-----
From: Nagarajan M [mailto:mnaga@emirates.net.ae]
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 6:38 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Lab equipment list.
Please suggest for CCIE R&S Lab equipments.I am building a study lab at
home.
Best regards,
Nagarajan
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