Hi Nandit,
Answer to this question took me quite a lot of time and research to find out
when I first got interested in Cisco and wanted to build a home lab for
practice.
I don't believe there is a right or wrong way in building a lab at home for
practice as there is quite a selection of Cisco hardware to choose from. It
all depends on how much you want to spend. Of course the more you spend the
better your lab will be.
My personal opinion is that the most important thing in building a home lab
(especially for CCIE level) is the selection (variety) of interfaces on the
routers and not really what router types you have (unless of course your
going for better performance, i.e. faster routers, modularity, etc).
I would say that for CCNA having three routers to practice on is a bonus.
2500 Series and above would be ideal. For CCNP having 4 Routers and a
Catalyst switch would be great. One of the Router's should have at least 4
Serial interfaces for Frame Relay Switch set-up, BGP Route Reflectors, etc.
Switch type could be any but more generally used for home practice are the
Cisco Catalyst 2901 or Cat. 5000 Switches.
I am currently in the process of building the following CCIE lab at home for
practice. I have:
Catalyst 2901 Switch
-12 port 10/100 Ethernet module - Software 4.5(9).
-Supervisor I engine - Software 4.5(9).
Cisco 2924XL Enterprise Switch.
Cisco 2502 (16MB/16MB) (2 Serial, 1 Token Ring)
Cisco 2503 (16MB/16MB) (2 Serial, 1 Ethernet, 1 ISDN)
Cisco 2509 (16MB/16MB) (2 Serial, 8 Async, 1 Ethernet)
Cisco 4500 (8MB/32MB)
-Dual port serial module (NP-4T)
-Dual port Ethernet module (NP-2E)
-Dual port token ring module (NP-2R)
I will be getting:
Cisco 2513 (16MB/16MB) (2 Serial, 1 Ethernet, 1 Token Ring)
Cisco 2522 (16MB/16MB) (8 Serial, 1 Ethernet, 1 ISDN)
Cisco 2610 with 1 x VoIP module
Cisco 2620 with 1 x VoIP module (Used for ISL/Trunking)
ISDN Simulator.
This is by no means a perfect (dream!!) lab and is based on my own research.
You probably will have noticed I do not have any ATM gear as this is a bit
pricey and I will be hiring some time on ccbootcamp, etc...closer to the
actual CCIE lab.
Hope this helps!!
Best Regards
Ashfaq
B.Sc. (Hon's) Computer Science degree
MCSE, MCP+I, CCNA, CCNP 2/4
Senior Network Engineer – Bloomberg L.P (SKY Television)
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Hi,
I was trying to figure out a dream lab setup for covering ccna,np,ie and
other cisco certs.could u please add your thopughts on this.
Thanks
nandit
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