From: sam (sam@avtechusa.com)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 11:04:00 GMT-3
Well, flash can be bought of ebay as well. I try to go to the sellers
that have high positives.. a couple of other places on the web such as
kg2.com (Of which I have no affiliation with) offer parts as well.
My apologies to the rest of the group... This wasn't meant as a gung-ho
self congratulatory post. I just wanted to get across the feeling that a
lot of money need not be spent just to set up a home lab.
Cabling and upgrading flash are not required for the lab. But it helped
me to better understand the equipment and the underlying architecture.
Sam Sena
-----Original Message-----
From: David Porta [mailto:David.Porta003@msd.govt.nz]
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 7:39 PM
To: sam
Subject: Re: Lab equipment list.
Hi Sam,
I am poor too :)
Where did you purchase the 16MB Flash and RAM for your 2501's?
I am doing it the same way you are, however I am still getting my
equipment together.
Thanks for your help.
Dave
sam wrote:
>
> 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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