From: Scott, Tyson C (tyson.scott@hp.com)
Date: Mon Mar 15 2004 - 13:01:39 GMT-3
If you have the money and you want to spend I would not
recommend using any equipment that is end of life.
There is so much new technology that is being introduced in the
new trains which is not being supported on old devices. I have 4500's
exclusively and they do not support NBAR so there is a lot of the new
MQC that I cannot do. I have had to rent a lot of rack time to be able
to do everything I need.
So if you do not have the 15,000 to 20,000 dollars it will take
to make a good lab with all the technology you really need to pass the
lab go to one of the many CCIE preparation vendors out there and buy
your rack access in bulk. Most of the vendors will offer you discounts
when you buy in bulk.
You can probably buy as much rack time as you need for the same
price as building your own rack with a bunch of 2500's and a 3550, which
will limit your ability to do complex scenarios.
Do your research and you will be prepared. My company is a
partner with Cisco so I was able to go to the Cisco lab here locally and
use it but it ended up being more of a hassle for me than a convenience.
I was not able to go in there enough to help my study as I need.
I have found it to be easier to buy the rack time online and use
what is available out there.
I have found that people are much more helpful when you are
buying it from them rather than mooching off of them :)
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Richard Dumoulin
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 10:13 AM
To: Sabeen; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: which equipments?
Hi Sabeen, here are my suggestions:
There are several ways you can go which depend on the lab workbooks you
are
going to use:
-- If you are short of routers and are just starting the CCIE trip, go
for
Tom Larus e-book. His advices are not to be missed !!
-- If you only use CCO white papers then three to four routers and two
switches should suffice depending on the whitepaper.
-- If you use InternetworkExpert then they have the cheapest rack
rental
(the cheapest book too) in the market (15$ every 11 hours !!!).I think
that
their rate quality/price is the best you will currently find. The
material
covered and how it is covered is gold.
-- If you want to purchase your own lab then I would go for the DoitLab
workbook. They require the minimum number of routers. Their stuff in the
workbook is also of high quality and the support forum is good !! Maybe
the
price is a bit high but the service given is worth every dollar.
-- By what I have seen on the sample scenario of CCBootcamp Lab
Companion
guide, you need few routers too. And it is a step by step guide.
-- On IPExpert maybe someone else can comment on the new version of
the
book. Personnaly I find the price a bit high and my pocket is currently
empty, lol. I can only comment on the CCSP book which was very well
written.
I hope this gave you a good idea on what's needed to prepare for the
lab.
--Richard
-----Mensaje original-----
De: Sabeen [mailto:sabeenishaq@yahoo.com]
Enviado el: sabado, 13 de marzo de 2004 20:56
Para: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Asunto: which equipments?
Hello,
My question is toward recent CCIE's and CCIE
candidates. Which equipments are good to practice for
ccie lab? Since there have been a lot of changes in
lab, I do not think that only practicing on 2500's
routers will help to gain ccie cert that most of the
ppl are selling for home labs.
So what you guys are practicing on? What you have in
home labs that helped you achieve ccie or helping you
to become ccie?
The equipments listed for ccie on cisco.com are pretty
expensive to purchase for home lab.
Sabeen
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