From: Long Nguyen (longoc@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Sep 21 2008 - 13:30:46 ART
Well I'm a fresh out of college student, bored and motivated to learn the
technologies, so I'm going for bang for my buck.
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Narbik Kocharians <narbikk@gmail.com>wrote:
> Long,
>
> Your other option is to do all the routing and some switching and from time
> to time just rent a rack for a day or so.
>
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Scott M Vermillion <
> scott_ccie_list@it-ag.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Long,
>>
>> Depending on your budget and your approach to lab prep, you could also
>> consider the 3560-8PCs (a nine-port switch counting the gig "uplink"
>> port).
>> They have the full L3 and QoS functionality that you will need for lab
>> prep.
>> You can buy these new for under $1k each and I'm guessing there's a used
>> market by now. Having said that, I'm not entirely convinced that a
>> four-switch hardware lab is strictly speaking necessary; rack rentals can
>> go
>> a long way if you are able to work your schedule around those of the
>> vendors. I personally built a 4x3560-8PC lab and have no serious regrets
>> -
>> I was able to learn a LOT about L2 via random exploration and
>> troubleshooting that I otherwise wouldn't have if I was just trying to get
>> through the motions of a lab scenario in my allotted rental window. But I
>> can honestly say that these switches were probably expense #2, second only
>> to the sum total of my training expenditures...
>>
>> Prosperous studies!
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
>> Long
>> Nguyen
>> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 3:29 AM
>> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>> Subject: Rack set up question for R & S
>>
>> I've inherited my brother's CCIE rack and its an older set up with two
>> 3550
>> switches. I was wondering how crucial it would be for me two be able to do
>> the labs with 4 switches. I've also inherited his older workbooks for the
>> two switch set up. Should I pick up some 2950s and get the new learning
>> materials, or could I learn enough via the two switches, my work
>> experience
>> is not very extensive at all.
>> --
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Long Nguyen
>> CCNP/CCDP
>>
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