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CCNA/CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: Assembling Your Cisco Home Lab
CCNA or CCNP candidate who wants to be fully prepared for their exams will make a home next to the practice in the laboratory. With used Cisco routers and switches abundant and more affordable than ever, there is really no excuse for not having one!
With the variety of models available, there is some understandable confusion among prospective CCNAs and CCNPs about the routers you buy and what to avoid. You can take almost any set of Cisco routers, and prepare a house laboratory; part of the learning process is taking what equipment is available and to develop their own laboratory! For those of you to start preparing your home lab or add to your existing This article includes a list of routers that use my Cisco pods. Surely you do not have to have all this equipment, but this will give you some ideas on how to get started.
The router more versatile than you can get for your CCNA / CCNP home is a laboratory of 2520. These routers come with four serial ports, an Ethernet port, and an interface for ISDN BRI practice. This mix of interfaces means that you can actually use it as a frame relay switch while using the ethernet and BRI ports for routing. (There is no problem with the use of a lab router as its framework and relay and switch from one router practice, a frame relay to change the configuration of the sample, visit my website!)
My pods consist of five two routers and switches, and three of the five routers are 2520s, because of their versatility. A recent search showed ebay these routers sale for $ 99 - $ 125, an outstanding value for practice is going to get.
Also running on my 2501s house laboratories. These interfaces are less, but the combination of two serial interfaces and an ethernet interface allows you to get a lot of practice.
A combination that works well is using three 2520s, as a dedicated my frame relay switch, as a R1 and R2 as another. Add 2501 as R3, and you can have a frame of clouds connection R1, R2 and R3, a direct serial connection between R1 and R3, an Ethernet segment, which includes the three routers, and an ISDN connection between R1 and R2 if have an ISDN simulator. That combination allows for a tremendous amount of practice for exams, and you can always sell it when it is already!
2501s are very affordable, and many in the range of $ 50 ebay. It is quite possible to get three 2520s and 2501 for less than $ 500 total, and you can get most of that money back if you decide to sell it when finished.
With four routers to work, which is probably going to get tired of moving around the console cable. An access server (actually a Cisco router, not the white boxes tend to think of when we hear "server") will help with that. An access server allows you to set up a connection with each other routers via a cable octal, which prevents you from moving continuously around the console cable. For an example of a configuration server access, visit my website and look at the "Free Education".
Server access prices vary somewhat, do not worry if you do a search on your costing and see them thousands of dollars. You do not need an expensive server for access to its CCNA / CCNP home laboratory. 2511s are big routers to gain access to your server.
One question I get often CCNA / CCNP candidates is "What should I buy routers that I can continue to use when I am ready to look for the CCNP?" The laboratory CCIE changes periodically, and sometimes dramatically when it comes to the teams that need. During my CCIE laboratory studies, I found that the time for rent online rental rack suppliers is actually the best way to go. Do not hesitate to put your CCNA / CCNP home along laboratory, wondering what will be acceptable to the CCIE lab a year or less from now. None of us knows what is going to be on the list of teams that, in order to obtain the CCNA and CCNP first - by the construction of its own laboratory Cisco home!
-- Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933, is the owner of The Bryant Advantage (http://www.thebryantadvantage.com), home of free CCNA and CCNP tutorials, The Ultimate CCNA Study Package, and Ultimate CCNP Study Packages. Video courses and training, binary and subnetting help, and corporate training are also available. Pass the CCNA exam and CCNP exams with Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933! For a copy of his FREE ebooks, "How To Pass The CCNA" and "How To Pass The CCNP", just visit the website to request your copies!