My new Cisco CCNP Lab

Got most of the gear needed to study for the Cisco CCNP R&S qualifications. Just waiting on a new job now so I can buy the rest of the kit.

Items from top down:

- 24 port 10/100 Planet Switch (Unmanaged)
- 48 Port patch panel
- Watchguard Firebox 700 III
- Three Cisco Catalyst 3550 EMI Layer 3 Switches
- 24 port Cisco 2900XL Switch
- Three Cisco 2612 Routers with varying interfaces
- Cisco 2610 Router
- 19" TFT Monitor
- Three HP DL350 Servers (Two G3 and one G4) equiped with 6 9.5GB 10k RMP SCSI Drives in each

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Cisco
• CCNP
• CCIE
• CCNA
• CCDP
• CCSA
• CCSP
• switch
• rack
• router
• 2600
• 2610
• 2620
• 2612
• 3500
• 3550
• home
• lab

[cyberpsych1]

Nice... FYI, I've passed the BCMSN (now called "Switch"), Route, and I'm working on the last test (TShoot) for my CCNP and I'll I've used is GNS3. If I needed hardware, I'd personally run GNS3 on a box with NICS connecting to switches and call it a day...

Nice setup you have, by the way :-)

[snedie69er]

@cyberpsych1

That's my plan for TSHOOT. Run GNS3 on two i7 machines with a good 12 nic ports in each.

Thanks

[monstergarage2]

Do those switches work good on game servers and will the work great for dedicated servers?

[snedie69er]

@monstergarage2

In industry this routing genrally isn't performed by the switch which hosts the VLAN's but rather some other device such as a router (3620 for example). But lets say you only had a netgear router which didn't support VLAN's, in this case you could buy a layer 3 switch (3550) and route internally.

That's just a brief over view of these switches in terms of basic functionality. In short they do their jobs extremely well and it's simply a matter of price vs requirements.

[monstergarage2]

@snedie69er Thanks at my school finally got time to look in it and saw the big HP router but they had about 5 switched connected to it

[snedie69er]

@monstergarage2

HAHA :)

You'll find that most education authorities stick to HP solutions as they are extremely cheap, quick and easy to setup and certainly do their jobs well. Schools love HP stuff simply because once they are setup you can just leave them in a closet and know that the next 5 years are going to go pretty smoothly.

Hope you liked the vid :)

[nasoszeppos]

awesome!!!



[nasoszeppos]

pretty awesome!

[snedie69er]

@monstergarage2

Depends how complex of a network you are running really and there are a few considerations to make in terms of the requirements you needs.

For example if you required each server to reside in it's own VLAN then any standard Cisco Layer 2 switch (2900xl for example) will suffice, but then there is the need to route all those VLAN subnets to your DMZ (Aka edge router). Next Comment....

[snedie69er]

@DrakyGordon

Yer they are quite large things to have kicking around a house, let alone the noise and electrical costs associated with them.

The commands will probably have slight variances from switches to routers, but the basic principles are still the same. Good luck with your studies :)