From: Tandou Mohamed (dtandou@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2007 - 11:18:39 ART
Thanks for your input Salau. man ! these 3560 switches cost a lot.
"Salau,Olayemi" <Olayemi.Salau@southampton.gov.uk> wrote: st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } Hello Mohamed,
I would say 4 switches gives more flexibility to 2, you can still do most of the things on 2 but with 4, you have more flexibility like configuring certain etherchannel protocols on a link and another type on the other etherchannel links. Also Cisco gives more Switching Tasks to eat up our time within the Lab, you can timely deal with 2 Switches, but now that you have to do most of all the switching tasks on 4, well then I pray the Cisco God be with us afterall this is CCIE R&S and not CCIE Routing Certification.
Things like private-vlan also, I seriously doubt if you can configure private-vlans on Cat2950 with IOS 12.1(22) EA7; but 3560 can do this using IOS 12.2(25) SEE the later ones. Consider things like IPv6 Routing, FallBack Bridging, HSRP(normal), IP Unicast & Multicast Routing, VLAN Map Filtering These are switching concepts that I dont think is capable with 2950 again Im only speaking from my own personal experience these are not categorical facts.
The catch here is the IOS, maybe there is a cisco IOS that you can install on 2950 which gives some capabilities like Private-Vlans, but what I know is, you dont want to go into the lab without at least the knowledge of all these newly supported switching technologies.
But if all you want is do some basic Switching functionalities, then 2950 will be good enough at least for budgets sake
Many Thanks
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From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Tandou Mohamed
Sent: 05 January 2007 12:43
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: New CCIE R&S with four switches
Hello GS,
everybody knows by now the new lab R&S has four switches. Looks like some of the vendors have four switches in their new lab.
i saw someone email on GS after his LAB saying the lab with four switches can be done with two switches. Does anyone try one of the vendor lab with two switches ? what are the advantages or disadvantages if it is possible.
Can i use a 2950 instead of 3550 or 3560? Budget
Cheers,
Tandou
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