Joel: I have seen several people use 1760's in theor home labs and find them very useful and functional to simulate lab scenarios.
Larry Hadrava CCIE #12203 CCNP CCNA Sr. Support Engineer – IPexpert, Inc. URL: http://www.IPexpert.com On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Joel Jose <joeljose...@gmail.com> wrote: > yeah sure... thats right.... i will be complementing my home rack with > online racks... and obviously i wont go in without a comfortable amount of > mocklabs under my belt ;). > > > was wondering if 1760 was enough for 1 br and HQ.... it will be quite > inexpensive to fill the vwics that way.. and i can get one nice router..like > 3725 /2800 with cue for the other br.... i know i will have to use 2seperate > routers for pstn(1760) and wan(2600) that way(1760 wont allow both..). > > > > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:12 AM, Larry Hadrava <lhadr...@ipexpert.com>wrote: > >> Joel: >> Make sure you understand and practice a little with the Etehrswitch >> module. The main thing to remember is that you have to set up the ports as >> trunk ports. Then you set the data vlan and voice vlans as normal. >> I'd at least run through it 3 or 4 times to make sure you can get the >> phones up and registered through the Etherswitch module so you can spend >> just a couple of minutes to configure that piece in the lab. You don't want >> to spend 15 minutes of valuable time trying to get this done on lab day:-) >> >> Larry Hadrava >> CCIE #12203 CCNP CCNA >> Sr. Support Engineer – IPexpert, Inc. >> URL: http://www.IPexpert.com <http://www.ipexpert.com/> >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Joel Jose <joeljose...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> i'm trying to make a decent lab..., i have an unused 3750 at work.. but >>> it has "sfp-LH-sfm" modules... buying Cat5 compatible modules are gonna be >>> expensive... i just got another idea... i also have a 3560 unused... so i a >>> thinking of truning between them using the existing SFP GBIC on them... and >>> then connecting my whole lab onto the 3560... i still havent made the plan >>> completely... but am in the process.... so any helps would be >>> appreciated.... >>> >>> now... i believe the POE configs on all the devices and the Etherswitch >>> modules are a piece of cake.. and i dont have to "practise"..it... may be >>> just a few proctorlabs would be enough for it...(if at all)... I wonder >>> what the etherswitch configs would be like... gues it follows the mqcli of >>> ios...? hope the lack of it in my lab wont prove costly.. >>> >>> and lastly... i plan on using only softphones..... i will be mainly >>> following the topology of proctorlabs.. so that when i purchase the bls it >>> will be easier...i hope.. for most part softphones are no dif from the >>> hardphones..(except that they dont have some realy stupid issues with the >>> headphone and speakerphone buttons.. like some 7960s in my lab..grrr ) >>> >>> >>> one more thing... i really am getting annoyed nowadays with the slow >>> speed of the cucm vmwares... even a 2/3 second waiting when the "loading" is >>> displayed is really adding up and wasting a good portion of my time... when >>> i am wanting to do a quick checkup of all the configs.. its a real pain... i >>> wish they had a "show run"... ghaaush... the way out.. is a good highend >>> server.. i will think about the configs for runing all the 5 vmwares + 9 >>> ipphones in a common server.... >>> >>> i plan to get a 3725 for cue+cme... and for the rest br1 and br2 i plan >>> to use 3640s... >>> >>> any help in the way of ideas would be greatly appreciated... >>> >>> joel. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> "it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your >>> years." Abraham Lincoln >>> >> >> > > > -- > "it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." > Abraham Lincoln >
