From: Kris Keen (kkeen@bigpond.net.au)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 07:29:19 GMT-3
John
I think rental time is your best bet for this issue, you will get enough
hands on if you buy enough rack time!
I'm sure if you had a 2900XL you could learn 70% of the stuff on this, and
spend the rest on rack time...
KK
----- Original Message -----
From: <rjonathan@hotpop.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 7:36 PM
> Dear All,
>
> I would like to hear your advice as I've been thinking wether I should
> prepare for my 2nd attempt or not.
>
> As all of you might have known starting from 4th November 2002 Cisco would
> replace 5500 and 3920 with 2 3550 switches. They would also remove Token
> Ring, IGRP, and IPX.
>
> I didn't get sponsorship for pursuing CCIE from my company and I have to
> fund everything by myself. Therefore I will not be able to afford a 3550
> EMI eventhough I might be able to get a 2900XL.
>
> What do you guys think about the lab after 4th Nov 2002 ?
> Do you think one should be able to be well prepared if they don't
> have chance to practice with 3550 ?
> Will 2900xl be good enough for practice as the routing function of
> 3550 would be similar to router ?
> I'm thinking to have some rental rack time w/ 3550 but don't know
> if it would give me enough hands on.
>
> You can email you suggestion to me privately.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Ronny
>
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