From: Ian Henderson (ianh@chime.net.au)
Date: Sat Nov 27 2004 - 22:22:00 GMT-3
Hi everyone,
Just a quick message of introduction. I've just passed my written exam
here in Perth, Australia and am going for my first lab attempt in Sydney
in April. Been doing network stuff for about six years in the ISP
industry. Lots of dial, BGP, ISDN, OSPF, a little bit of MPLS and
switching, not very much bridging, ISIS, multicast, etc. More recently
have diversed into voice stuff (SS7 on the Cisco PGW2200) and DSL
(Ericsson EDA).
I'm in the middle of setting up my lab. Thankfully, I can leave this in
the machine room in the office, rather than have exceesive heat and noise
at home (I've already got four PC's, switch, AP and 2621 in my computer
room at home).
Most of my gear will be scavenged from shutdown POPs. This will be mostly
2600's with E1 g.703 cards. Has anybody used E1/T1 with crossover cables
instead of serial in their lab? I've had this great idea of using a 5300
with no modem cards as a frame switch - I have no idea if its supported,
but they're just collecitng dust otherwise (we're upgrading to 5400's, and
the failure rate of 5300 modem cards after four or five years in service
is quite high). At least they'll be useful as fe+e+serial boxes if FR
switching doesn't work.
My other brainwave was to setup a bastion host running Linux to act as a
TFTP server, a web server with a wiki to put my notes, a jump off point to
get to the terminal server (2511-RJ), somewhere to run 'screen', etc.
Anybody have any useful tools? I'm already guessing rancid, syslog,
Net::Telnet::Cisco, script, etc.
Hope to get to know you all over the next sixish months. :) Its gunna
be... interesting, no doubt. :)
Rgds,
- I.
-- Ian Henderson CCNA, CCNP Senior Network Engineer, Chime Communications
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