RE: new R&S lab 4.0 home lab upgrade.

DLS152

There is no VPN in v4.0 for R&S. L3VPN is not IPSec it is a virtualization
of the routing table.

I would Go with Tony's recommendation of the 4 x 3560's/3750 with Dynamips.
You would probably want a cheap non-cisco switch that supports Dot1q to
break out your various routers to your 3750's. You can use 7206VXR in
Dynamips that will support the latest code. A $1500 workstation that can be
used for a lot of other stuff is a lot better to swallow then network
equipment you can't use for anything else.

Regards,
 
Tyson Scott - CCIE #13513 R&S and Security
Technical Instructor - IPexpert, Inc.

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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Joe
Astorino
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 4:36 PM
To: dls152_at_cox.net
Cc: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: new R&S lab 4.0 home lab upgrade.

Well MPLS L3 VPN you can definitely do with 3640s no problem. The zone
based firewall and IOS firewall are just feature sets of the IOS as far as I
know.

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:31 PM, <dls152_at_cox.net> wrote:

> Joe,
>
> Thanks. I am just wondering how to work the vnp and firewall requires for
> new 4.0 blueprint starting in October. I don't want to spend any money if
I
> can avoid it.
> ---- Joe Astorino <jastorino_at_ipexpert.com> wrote:
> > Hey! I'm all for buying new and exciting gear but to be honest, I think
> you
> > are doing quite well!!! You can do pretty much everything on a 3750
that
> > you can on a 3560. Those are some NICE units. Your 3640's can
> definitely
> > do MPLS as I have some in my own home rack. Backbone routers don't need
> to
> > be anything special so you are OK there. If anything, you might add 2
> more
> > 3640s instead of the 2600s and maybe replace that 1700 with one of the
> > 2600s.
> >
> > If you really can't resist spending money, get some 2811s : )
> >
> > My 2 cents
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:29 PM, <dls152_at_cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > > I am looking to upgrade my home lab rack and need some help trying to
> > > determine what is needed for new r&s lab? Can anyone help?
> > >
> > > Current lab:
> > > 4x 2600's
> > > 2x 3640's
> > > 1x 1700 backbone routers
> > > 2x 2600 backbone routers
> > > 4x 3750's
> > >
> > >
> > > Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
> > >
> > >
Received on Mon Aug 03 2009 - 17:01:23 ART