From: James Matrisciano (jmatrisciano@kenttech.com)
Date: Thu Jan 27 2005 - 08:22:41 GMT-3
The IOS is a work around, not that difficult if you beef up the router.
I personally have a lab with 5 2500's in it. You will need at least two
routers that can support fastE and to make things a lot easier, spend
the money or have someone spend the money for you on a couple 3550's
w/emi. You will loose a lot of training without the Fast E ports, I
have a 2621 and a 3640 both containing 2 fast E ports. I have yet to
see a 2500 with fast E, but never really looked for one either. The
1700 is small but you can find them with Fast E and is a cheap
substitute that works very well.
jm
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
netsteps@rediffmail.com
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 1:10 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: 2500 or 2600 for home lab?
Hey all
I am about to purchase my home lab for scheduled CCIE Lab. Please advise
me the drawbacks of using all 2500's in my home rack instead of 2600's.
One difference I noted is that the 2500's can run IP plus as highes
feature set. They dont come with Enterprise Plus, while 2600 can be
configured with both feature sets. Is their something extra that wont be
there in IP plus for 2500 that i may require for CCIE.
Amit
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