From: Daniel_Steyn@Dell.com
Date: Sun Mar 11 2007 - 16:42:01 ART
Hey Cecil,
I'd actually recommend that you rent some rack time from one of the
major bootcamps/rack rental folks. You'll have access to 4 3560s for a
pretty good rate. The "competition" such as the Dell PowerConnect line
of gear is very affordable, but I would not recommend it - the commands
are just different enough to confuse you and mess with your head. You
also won't have access to any of the cisco-specific commands.
Daniel
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Darby Weaver
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 1:38 PM
To: Cecil Wilson; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: How do I prepare for the new 4 switch format?
Recall the "Triangle" or Spanning-Tree Manipulation.
You can get a couple of cheap switches and practice these techniches.
2912-XL's can be had for under $50.00
But you may like the DEll competition to Cisco for about $100-200.00 -
more IOS-like and cheaper - same functions...
I even bought an Avaya Switch to play with.
Nortel can be had for basically shipping.
You want to be able to manipulate Spanning-Tree and you want to be able
to play with the various Etherchannel commands.
You can do this on two Cisco switches - just get two others so you can
manipulate paths.
You'll be fine and the competition is extremely cheap.
I learned alot obout Spanning-Tree recently on Foundry for instance (not
as cheap) but the commands and concepts were almost identical in most
cases to Cisco.
--- Cecil Wilson <Cecil.Wilson@flextronics.com> wrote:
> Hello GS
>
> I have been preparing for the CCIE lab, and is scheduled for
>
> April. My concerns are: I have been practicing with
> 2 3550 swithes,
>
> the format has been change to 4 3560
>
> (which I can NOT afford, at this point)
>
> Any suggestions on the best way to prepare for the 4 switch format?
>
> Thanks for all input
>
>
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