From: dusth@comcast.net
Date: Sat Jun 11 2005 - 14:00:55 GMT-3
John,
You should take Brian suggestion. I built my own home lab for IE w/ everything except ATM. It costs me 7K.
Dustin
-------------- Original message -------------- 
> Hi John, 
> 
> It ultimately depends what you want to do with your home setup. 
> You can get some 2500s for a couple hundred dollars and do the majority 
> of the exercises on those. ISDN, ATM, and 3550 configurations would 
> obviously require the extra hardware support. For an exact replica of 
> our setup you could easily spend $10k on it. At that rate you may be 
> better off just renting rack time. 
> 
> Usually I recommend that candidates get a few 2500s to practice 
> on and then supplement it with rental time. For rack rentals you can go 
> through us or use a third party. Almost all commercial rack vendors 
> support our topology. For information on renting our racks check our 
> website. For third party support check 
> http://www.internetworkexpert.com/partners.htm 
> 
> 
> HTH, 
> 
> Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593 
> bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com 
> 
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> 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf 
> Of 
> > John Chen 
> > Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 7:48 PM 
> > To: ccielab@groupstudy.com 
> > Subject: Home lab for Internetwork Expert and Netmasterclass 
> > 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > I try to build my own home lab for IE or netmasterclass. According to 
> the 
> > equipments in workbook, it's too expensive for me. Any alternative 
> ways? I 
> > must purchase 2600s or 3600s for IPv6? Do I need those BBs in lab 
> > scenarios? 
> > 
> > Really need help for it? Somebody could give me a list of equipments 
> of 
> > home 
> > lab for IE or Netmasterclass. 
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> > John 
> > 
> > 
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