From: Shine (shinepjoseph@iprimus.com.au)
Date: Wed Mar 21 2007 - 11:54:48 ART
HI RF,
Not yet... I left my job to prepare for the lab. Just one month into the labs,
very long way to go.
Regards,
Shine
----- Original Message -----
From: Radioactive Frog
To: Shine
Cc: Narbik Kocharians ; thomas@perrier.name ; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 1:18 AM
Subject: Re: LAb Equipment ...
Hi Shine,
Hve you got your # ?
frog
On 3/21/07, Shine <shinepjoseph@iprimus.com.au> wrote:
My lab consists of 8 x 3640(32MB/128MB), 3x262x, Frame relay switch,
Access
server 2x 3550 and spent less than 8K (Australian). I purchased everything
from eBay as peace meal. And it took about 3 months to purchase all of
them.
If you are the US, it would be cheaper and fast to acquire all of them.
It
was hard for me do the eBay from Sydney because of un availability of the
equipment locally.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Shine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Narbik Kocharians" <narbikk@gmail.com>
To: < thomas@perrier.name>
Cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 2:48 AM
Subject: Re: LAb Equipment ...
>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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