RE: Gear for CCNP and CCIE preperation! [7:4058]

[Deloso, Elmer G (WPNSTA Yorktown)]

I just started putting together my lab which consists of 
4500 - 4 port serial, 2 Ether
4500 - 2 port serial, 2 Ether, 1 TR
2503
2504
2514
2516
I based this on the interface requirements to follow allong Stephen Hutnik's
CCIE Lab Study Guide.
All 2500's are ver.12 series, 4500's are 11.3.
OC-3 Single-Mode modules for each 4500 -just bought them!
2 FORE ATM LE-155 cards for the servers.
4 IBM Token Ring PCI cards.
2 10BaseT hubs.
PC's running everything from Solaris, BSD, RH-Linux, NT4 Enterprise in a
Cluster, an Inspiron laptop for running SnifferPro.
A library of Cisco Press books.
NetG courses for all CCNP tracks.
Marconi's ATM Training library.
Audio recordings of Networker's 2000 on EIGRP, OSPF, BGP.
I still need to get an Emutel for ISDN, 2 IBM MAU's,2511,
a 2620 for ISL/trunking, a 1912/2912, and if I still have some money left
hopefully a 3920.
Total cost for all routers, cables, NIC's ~ $8,000.
Hopefully I'll get to the final destination someday.
As Joe Namath said,"If you aren't going all the way,
why go at all?"
Or, as a Norwegian Physical Therapist said,
"There are only two ways to practice Manual Therapy.
Do it perfect, or don't bother."

HTH,
Elmer Deloso

-----Original Message-----
From: Eugene Nine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 3:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Gear for CCNP and CCIE preperation! [7:4058]


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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