From: Rohit Karnani (rohit877@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Jul 23 2005 - 11:47:53 GMT-3
It depends on the stage of your preparation.
If you are just practicing individual like IGP/BGP or Layer 2 , then
you might require 4-5 routers , but as you advance further and
practice "real-time" scenarios then you might need around 8-10
routers. Normally in lab, you will have access to 5-6 routers and few
routes will be propagated from Backbone routers. So at home lab, you
will need these 5-6 routers + 2-3 Bbone routers, ( considering that
you will berelaying ATM on rental labs)
Workaround will be to have one router with 4NM and connect to
different VLAN as BBobe routers . But cost wise it might not be
effective , cos on ebay you will find 2500 for less than $50.
( I found IE labs to be more realistic than others)
HTH
Rohit
On 7/23/05, Hoogen <hoogen82@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Well that's your hint for the lab. Why do they use so many routers,
> they try to get things as close as possible to the real lab. The
> topologies I used from IEWB which is very good.
>
> My suggestion if you are just starting out with Karl Solie 4-5 routers
> is fine. If your preparation is into workbook level. I would suggest
> you model your lab similar to the workbook setup. If you aren't able
> to afford anymore routers, rack rentals is best. I had about 6 routers
> and 2 switches to practice with. For the workbook i bought online
> racks.
>
> Hoogen
>
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