From: Gary Duncanson (gary.duncanson@googlemail.com)
Date: Sat Oct 13 2007 - 19:23:43 ART
Guys,
I have an interest in this from a distance as I may very well invest in
something like this in the future. I find the idea of having the lab on a PC
at home rather appealing instead of the hulking great lab of equipment that
presently noisily occupies a large corner of my spare room.
My concern at the moment is making sure I buy the right things for the
dynamips wotzit (Frog looks like to have bought something noisy as opposed
to what Brian Dennis says he has) and also finding a cookbook so I dont
spend as long trying to get the creature to do something useful as I do
using labs.
If anyone has any cookbooks about specs and how to set things up for
different tracks I would be interested.
Thanks
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "ccie candidate" <ccie.candidate@securebytes.co.uk>
To: "'Brian Dennis'" <bdennis@internetworkexpert.com>; "'WorkerBee'"
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Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 10:42 PM
Subject: RE: OT: how to cope with home lab's NOISE
> Brian,
>
> Sorry to bring this up but I just have to ask a question.
> When you say a 3 gig mac mini with vmware will run a whole voice lab, do
> you
> mean absolutely everything? If not, what can it not run? As in what might
> one have to rent online racks for? Also, any help with set up will be
> appreciated (dynamips)
> Thanks for your anticipated reply.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Brian Dennis
> Sent: 07 September 2007 06:28
> To: WorkerBee; Radioactive Frog; Cisco certification; Cisco certification
> Subject: Re: OT: how to cope with home lab's NOISE
>
> http://www.123macmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13795
>
> Also www.macsales.com sells a 3 gig upgrade for the mac mini.
>
> HTH,
>
> Brian Dennis, CCIE4 #2210 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/SP)
> bdennis@internetworkexpert.com
>
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>>----- Original Message -----
> Subject: Re: OT: how to cope with home lab's NOISE
> Date: Thu, September 6, 2007 22:13
> From: "WorkerBee" <ciscobee@gmail.com>
>
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> How do you make Mac Mini running with 3G RAM? The spec says only 2G.
>>
>> From Apple,
>>
>> 1GB (two 512MB) of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300)
>> Option: Up to 2GB
>>
>> The closest to Mac Mini lookalike is AOpen minipc which can support
>> 4G ram. The problem which mini pc is, they need SO DIMM ram which
>> is used in notebook, hence more expensive than PC ram.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9/7/07, Brian Dennis <bdennis@internetworkexpert.com> wrote:
>> > VMware Fusion on a Mac Mini with 3 gigs of RAM will run a whole voice
> lab
>> > and its extremely compact plus nearly totally silent.
>> >
>> > As a side note I know someone who is doing about 70% of their CCIE
>> > voice
>> > lab preparation on a single computer running VMware and Dynamips. Of
>> > course this person is extremely creative and resourceful. Kind of like
> a
>> > MacGyver of networking ;-)
>> >
>> > Brian Dennis, CCIE4 #2210 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/SP)
>> > bdennis@internetworkexpert.com
>> >
>> > Internetwork Expert, Inc.
>> > http://www.InternetworkExpert.com
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>> > Direct: 775-745-6404 (Outside the US and Canada)
>> >
>> >
>> > >----- Original Message -----
>> > Subject: OT: how to cope with home lab's NOISE
>> > Date: Thu, September 6, 2007 20:14
>> > From: "Radioactive Frog" <pbhatkoti@gmail.com>
>> >
>> > > Hi Gang,
>> > >
>> > > I just bought HP ML-580 server (Dual XEON 3.2 Ghz, 4Gigs ram) from
> e-bay
>> > and
>> > > it's noisy in home environment not acceptable.
>> > > Can someone guide me if there are ways around to reduce the noise.
> It's
>> > > normal noise which comes from the server (as usual).
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > This server has 6 fans. I took 2 fans out but still the XEON
> processor's
>> > > FAN's are making noise.
>> > >
>> > > How important it is to have VOICE home lab at home?
>> > > I am thinking to put all lab gears at work and access it from home
> using
>> > > IPSEC tunnel.
>> > > From home I can get 3-4 mbps connection to work.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Frog
>> > >
>> > >
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