hi there,
ok, so i passed my ccna last friday. i went the networking academy route so i had access to some proper kit. since the course finished i've had to make do with packet tracer. it's 'ok' but it's nowhere near as good as getting my hands dirty. i want to get a small lab of kit to keep on top of my skills, and also to pick up additional ones - i'm going after ccna: security next. i've found a pre-built lab, consisting of: 3x 2610xm routers, and 2x 12-port 2950 switches.
the routers have 64mb ram, 16mb flash, are running 12.4 ios and sdm, and come with quad-serial interfaces. the switches are running the 'latest' ios. it also comes with soho 97 adsl ethernet router. this has 32mb ram, 8mb flash, and is running 12.4 ios. (not sure i would actually use this though, since i have a juniper 5gt-adsl at home already).
as you would expect it is supplied with 3x dce/dte cables and a couple of console cables, along with cat5e and power cables. this is available for £465 and £15 shipping.
this seems fairly reasonable to me, but i would like to get some advice from some people more in the know as to whether this is 'ok'. please feel free to suggest any alternatives.
many thanks!
edit: i should also add that i have a 2621xm router lying around but i dont think it has much memory or flash, and im fairly sure it is running a much older version of ios. could probably use it for something though, not much use on its own though!
i also have a pix515e that i can add into the mix too.
ok, so i passed my ccna last friday. i went the networking academy route so i had access to some proper kit. since the course finished i've had to make do with packet tracer. it's 'ok' but it's nowhere near as good as getting my hands dirty. i want to get a small lab of kit to keep on top of my skills, and also to pick up additional ones - i'm going after ccna: security next. i've found a pre-built lab, consisting of: 3x 2610xm routers, and 2x 12-port 2950 switches.
the routers have 64mb ram, 16mb flash, are running 12.4 ios and sdm, and come with quad-serial interfaces. the switches are running the 'latest' ios. it also comes with soho 97 adsl ethernet router. this has 32mb ram, 8mb flash, and is running 12.4 ios. (not sure i would actually use this though, since i have a juniper 5gt-adsl at home already).
as you would expect it is supplied with 3x dce/dte cables and a couple of console cables, along with cat5e and power cables. this is available for £465 and £15 shipping.
this seems fairly reasonable to me, but i would like to get some advice from some people more in the know as to whether this is 'ok'. please feel free to suggest any alternatives.
many thanks!
edit: i should also add that i have a 2621xm router lying around but i dont think it has much memory or flash, and im fairly sure it is running a much older version of ios. could probably use it for something though, not much use on its own though!
i also have a pix515e that i can add into the mix too.
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