Cisco Home Lab
Over time I have collected a little Cisco home lab mostly from Ebay, a few trades and a few items saved from the scrap heap, I currently have;
- 7 Routers, (2 x 3640, 2 x 3620, and 3 x 2611)
- 3 Switches (1 x 24 port 3550, 1 x 12 port 3500, 1 x 48 port 3500)
- A couple of servers for end hosts, syslog, SNMP, and other network management they are particularly I need to test some configuration
- Lots of modules, cable tidy, PDU all nicely fitted into a 1/2 size rack
- And an aironet 1200 AP I use to remotely connect to the rack
Its not big enough for my CCIE studies so I am planning to buy some new higher end routers, a console server and another 3550 or 3560 once the written is out of the way and I can focus on lab exercises.
wow that looks nice
how much did the whole thing cost ?
Cheers, I would estimate I only spent around £400 on it, I was lucky enough to be able to pick up the rack, PDU, and a few routers for free as they were heading to the skip or long term stores, some of the other items I was able to swap things I already had but didn’t need like multicore servers