RE: Equipments for R&S labs

From: Tony Tong (tongcheungyu@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Aug 26 2008 - 22:37:40 ART

Hi Rick,

Thanks again for your suggestions.

I may also buy rack rental time instead of buying the switches to save
money. I think the budget can be cut within US$3000.

Now, I can only study and practice after office hour, often 7 or 8 pm. Since
the heavy work load on many projects (working on many vendor devices expect
Cisco. -_-").
I wish I can keep studying and practicing until January. But I don't know if
I have enough time.

^_*
Tony Tong

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Mur [mailto:rickmur@me.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:32 PM
To: Tony Tong
Cc: Cisco certification
Subject: Re: Equipments for R&S labs

Hi Tony,

I don't know what your budget is, but buying 4 switches and a bunch of
ethernet adapters will cost a lot more that hundreds of hours of rack
rentals.
It's totally the best thing to have the real equipment, but it also
costs a lot. But with dynamips and the 4 switches you can definitely
build all the labs.
You could also choose to do the labs completely on dynamips (with
switch modules) and do a couple of labs (where their is al lot of
ethernet switching) and do those on a rented rack, saves a lot of money.

Have a nice time studying, don't wait to long with practicing, because
you'll need all the time until January.
Also keep practicing every day or at least every week, just to keep
the level you have. I took some breaks in between and when I made a
mocklab after a couple of weeks break my scores dropped dramatically.

So enjoy and let us know how it went in January :-)

Rick

On 26 aug 2008, at 00:28, Tony Tong wrote:

> Hi Roger,
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> ^_^
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Oliver [mailto:divineone@divine-wind.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:08 PM
> To: Tony Tong
> Cc: 'Cisco certification'
> Subject: RE: Equipments for R&S labs
>
> Tony!
>
> Sounds like you got a good plan there. I like to rent rack's once in
> awhile at least once a week I rent a lab to just work on different
> gear
> that i'm not familiar with. So say get a rack session from IE or IP or
> whoever then do one of their "mock labs" or what have you. You can
> save
> it for down the stretch but I know many people who have done the same
> thing.
>
> Also check out the hacki.at site for more help on GNS3 and what you
> are
> trying to do. People there focus on doing what your doing and will be
> better prepared to respond or already have a post.
>
>
> Good Journey!
> Roger
>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Equipments for R&S labs
>> From: "Tony Tong" <tongcheungyu@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, August 25, 2008 11:49 pm
>> To: "'Cisco certification'" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> I'll take the R&S lab in Jan, 2009. Here is my plan to buy the
>> equipments
> to
>> practice:
>>
>>
>>
>> - buy lab workbooks from vendors like Internetworkexpert or IPexpert.
>>
>> - buy 2x 3560 switches and 2x 3550 switches from ebay.
>>
>> - simulate other routers from my laptop (Intel T5500 CPU with 3GB
>> RAM)
> using
>> GNS3(Dynamips).
>>
>>
>>
>> Can I complete the full sets of labs with these equipments?
>>
>>
>>
>> Can anyone share your experience and advice?
>>
>>
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Tony Tong
>>
>>
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