RE: building my own R&S lab

Anbu,

To be honest the best way to save money is to use dynamips.

If you want to do all your studying using this solely You can buy a
workstation with a quad core and a couple gigs of RAM and then purchase a
couple 3560's and 3550's

Look thru the archives and or do some Google searches to get all the setup
information for connecting dynamips to the external switches using a
breakout switch etc. you are looking at around a couple thousand.

If you don't want to use this as your primary method then using a
workstation to simulate a lot and then using rack rentals in my opinion can
actually save you money in my opinion.

But price it out. See what conclusion you come to in the amount of time you
think it will take you to obtain your CCIE. Good Luck.

Regards,

Tyson Scott - CCIE #13513 R&S, Security, and SP

Technical Instructor - IPexpert, Inc.

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From: Anbu [mailto:ksanpu_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 9:25 PM
To: Tyson Scott; Cisco certification
Subject: Re: building my own R&S lab

Thanks, if budget is not allowing to go through with 2811 , What is the
recommendation to replace those 2811 to match the version 4 requirement ?

Regards,
Anbu

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Tyson Scott <tscott_at_ipexpert.com> wrote:

Scuba,

To build their rack you will need
6 2811's
       6 WIC-2T's
       8 DB60 to smart-serial back to backs
       2 smart serial to smart-serial back to backs
4 3560's
1 older router that will support 2 or more NM modules. I think a 3640 is a
perfect router
       2 NM-4T's
       1 NM-2E (This is if you want to dual purpose the frame-switch for a
backbone router)
Lots of 7 ft patch cables.

You can then use the 3640 as your frame-switch and your backbone routers.
You can use VRF's on the 3640 to make it appear as several backbone routers.

That should be all the equipment you need.

I am surprised you are not getting direction from NMC as to how to configure
their topology. But you will need to contact them to get their frame-relay
switch configuration and the BB router configurations. Good Luck in your
studies.

Regards,

Tyson Scott - CCIE #13513 R&S, Security, and SP
Technical Instructor - IPexpert, Inc.
Mailto: tscott_at_ipexpert.com
Telephone: +1.810.326.1444, ext. 208

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From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of

scuba diver
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 9:33 AM
To: Iwan Hoogendoorn; Cisco certification
Subject: Re: building my own R&S lab

I want to buy 4 3560's and I want to buy 6 2811's with wic-2t's. Can I get
the wic-2t's with rj45 ports so I can use cat 6 to plug them into 3560's ?
If not, how can I connect them to the 3560's ? Do I have to have smart
serial cables ?
Scuba

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 8:01 AM, scuba diver <scuba1934_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I have NMC Cisco 360 materials and 10k to blow on equipment
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Iwan Hoogendoorn
<iwan_at_ipexpert.com>wrote:
>
>> What workbook are you going to study?
>> If you just want a lab to test certain technologies/topics I would
>> keep is small...
>>
>> I would even advise dynamips/GNS3
>>
>> If you als going to study a specific workbook (of a vendor) you can
>> look into those workbooks ...
>> They usually specify what equipment is used ...
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Iwan Hoogendoorn
>> CCIE #13084 (R&S / Security / SP)
>> Sr. Support Engineer IPexpert, Inc.
>> URL: http://www.IPexpert.com
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:11 PM, scuba diver <scuba1934_at_gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I want to build my own R&S lab. What equipment do I need ?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Scuba
>> >
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