Howard- I did exactly this to flesh out a few more serial ports that I needed. Like you said, VERY cheap way to get routers.
MikeS ""Howard C. Berkowitz"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > At 6:34 PM -0400 6/13/02, Michael Graham wrote: > >It's just occured to me that with that one announcement Cisco has made all > >the > >Token Ring stuff sold on Ebay, for various home labs, worthless.....and > saved > >me a pretty penny. > > > >Mike Graham > >CCNP, CCDP > > It is said that: > > an optimist says the glass of water is half full > a pessimist says the glass of water is half empty > an engineer says the size of the glass was incorrectly specified. > > If I were building a home lab, I'd look at the availability of TR > devices as a way to add, cheaply, more routers. At layer 3, it > doesn't matter if you are interconnecting with Ethernet or Token Ring. > > Sure, you'll want some Ethernets for Ethernet-only bridging and other > topics. But the availability of cheap TR gear lets you add more > routing complexity at low cost. There's also no reason why you can't > use boxes that have TR, ISDN, and serial interfaces. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=46532&t=46518 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
