Here's the site I used www.horizondata.com ,they are redoing their web site
right now so the list is not up to date, call and get a recent list, plus
they are expecting a shipment in next week. I purchased three 2500's to
start my lab. I am just starting the CCNP track and from what I can tel you
need at least three in a loop so you can break the redundant link and watch
the routing protocols work.
Eugene
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> Group,
>
> I have been given some great links to sites in which I can lease
> equipment, and rent rack time. My question to all of you who have built a
> lab or who are in the process of building a lab is this: What would be
the
> best possible setup in order to prepare for the CCIE lab. I have read a
few
> of the posts thus far from persons who are in the process of building
labs,
> and they are shooting for a price of $4,000 dollars for a pretty extensive
> lab. If I could put a lab together for that price I would jump at the
> chance. Does anyone have a list of sites in which I could find used gear
at
> a reasonable price? What functionality should my lab have. The problem
is
> that the CCIE lab incorporates a great deal of technologies which I will
> probably never see at work or only once in a great while. I live in way
up
> north in Minnesota, Duluth to be exact, well actually I live in Superior,
> Wisconsin right across the bridge but close enough. Is there anyone in
this
> area willing to form a study group, lease out, buy, or lend equipment for
> such a lab. Studying is great by yourself sometimes, but I tell you what,
> you never seem to learn as much as if you can bounce Ideas off of others.
> If anyone in my area Duluth, Minnesota, and/or Superior, Wisconsin has an
> interest in firing up a group study for the CCNP and the CCIE I would
enjoy
> that opportunity.
> In the meantime I'm trying to put a lab together but instead of
> searching all over the net, maybe some of you out there have purchased and
> could recommend a good used equipment site. Fatkid.com offers leasing,
and
> I appreciate the link I received to it, but I'm wondering how expensive it
> would be for me to build that same lab at home? Is the fatkid lab similar
> to the CCIE lab? Alright I'm getting carried away. I hate technology
it's
> to addicting.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jeremy
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