I was going to do 3x quad nics get some 3560s then adding it all up decided to go 2 for 1 rack rental. I have a rack of 9 routers mostly 3640s and 2620xms and a fr switch with a Single 3550 and 2x 2950s etc. I use that for core basic / intermediate stuff then rent online for labs.
I broke down cost several times but here is short of it 3200 usd for 4x 3560s 3200 = over 1200 hours of rack time. That's not accounting for 2 for 1 deal which *could* double that..... Sooooooo if you had got 2 for 1 special and had 2400 hours that means you could do about a session a day every day for a year......every day.........yea. You don't own the equipment but you get switches 2811s a 3825s and no annoying crap with gns3 deciding it don't want to work. I see these threads can't ping from r4 to r6 or serial link not working etc etc. I say forget all that. I use gns3 but it gets annoying not being able to do certain things. Yes its free, but I guess I'm all about quality. My 3cents. -nick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: "Bodnar, Edward" <edward.bod...@unisys.com> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:11:16 To: ccie_rs@onlinestudylist.com<ccie_rs@onlinestudylist.com> Subject: [OSL | CCIE_RS] GNS3 question _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com
