From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Sun Jan 04 2004 - 21:23:13 GMT-3
At 12:32 AM -0500 1/4/04, Steven S. Minnick wrote:
>Does anyone have a link that shows a list of what equipment is needed for
>the Internetwork Expert lab book. My work has decided to fund part of my
>lab equipment, so I would like to put together a wish list of everything
>possible. Thanks for any help you can give.
You know, this is a good question on a more general level. I think it
would be "fair use" under the Copyright Act if readers, and certainly
if vendors prepared such lists, and put them in a comparison table.
Paul, is this something that could go onto the groupstudy page?
This certainly doesn't judge the vendor's quality. A vendor that requires more
equipment very well may have more comprehensive scenarios. Still, the
true cost of using a practice product reflects both the workbook cost
and the cost of the lab to implement it.
Such a table certainly should identify if the vendor suggests that it
may be appropriate to rent time on virtual racks for topics with
especially expensive equipment requirements (e.g., ATM, and possibly
multiple 3550).
Users might very well be able to note where they have used older and
cheaper equipment, and where this presented a problem such as last
release supported. While there is MPLS support on 2500's, for
example, I understand it's somewhat limited, and again remote racks
might make sense -- or, even better, having the information to trade
off remote rack cost versus that of a more expensive router.
It's definitely worth identifying where older, cheaper Token Ring may
substitute for Ethernet. Especially with the advent of dual 3550s,
and even to some extent when it was just a 5000, there may be various
switching scenarios that require a modern Ethernet router and switch.
Lots of people, however, have built labs that don't require Ethernet
on all routers, just the ones that will interact with the switch.
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