Thursday, January 26, 2012

Building a CCNA lab

I received a cisco 678 DSL modem right around when that famous clip on The Simpsons aired, showing a beatup "cisco" box, with many wires, and a old sleeping man in the corner. It was "The Internet". Ever since I have collected random Cisco gear to play with. It was years later I found out about the CCNA, and by that point the gear I had was useless. Recently I started to rebuild my lab with the goal of completing the CCNA, plus volunteering at a ewaste recycler helps :).

I found a great little blog HERE for getting started: Check it out.

My current lab is a bit of a mess, as I have gathered far to much gear for the CCNA.

Current gear:
Switches:
Cisco 3550
Cisco 3500
Cisco 2950-12
Cisco 2950-24
Cisco 2950T-24

Routers:
Pix 515e
CIsco 881w
Cisco 1760
Cisco 1841/256/64mg
Cisco 1841/128/32mg
Cisco 2610
Cisco 2620
Cisco 3620
Cisco 3640

AP:
1230G
Addon cards:
Wic 2T
3x Wic 1dsu T1
2x Wic 1dsu T1 V2
1FE2W
Async 32a with cable

I set my two 1841's and 2950T switch up as just a starter lab to give myself some practice. As I have more time I will build out the full lab once my new rack gets here.

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