From: Narbik Kocharians (narbikk@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 20 2007 - 12:48:30 ART
I would take the 10K deal.
On 3/20/07, thomas@perrier.name <thomas@perrier.name> wrote:
>
> >I found a good deal in E-bay costing $10k which includes around 6 x 3640,
> 2 x
> >3560, 2x 3550, 1 x 26xx Access Server along with cables and ports.
> >
> >Is it a worthwhile investment?
>
> Looks overpriced to me. My lab cost me EUR 3400, and consists of two 2620,
> one 2611, two 2610, one 2610XM, one 2611XM, one 2511, one 2522, two 3550,
> two 2950, lots of serial WICs, and serial and Ethernet cables. The 2500s
> memory configurations are 16/16, the 2600 64/16, the 2600XM 128/32 (so these
> ones can run 12.4 advanced enterprise).
>
> However that takes time to look for good deals on routers, then order RAM
> and WICs, etc. On the other hand, I found it enjoyable to build my own rack!
>
> I initially bought it for the two-3550s lab version. When Cisco added the
> 3560s, I decided buying two wasn't worth the cost, and opted for two 2950 (a
> C and a T) in order to be able to practice more L2 stuff. For the few 3560
> features my lab doesn't support (private VLANs, different QoS, etc.), I use
> 3750s at work.
>
> There's nothing I encountered in my first try last week that I hadn't been
> able to practice (I still failed with ~75 % of points, so close :(.
>
> -Thomas
>
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