LabGear

It’s time to wrap up this series. The new price estimates are posted for 2950, 2960, and 3550 switches. The prices are pretty reasonable for most any budget. Today’s post hits the highlights!

The history of #CCNA, compared to the history of Cisco LAN switch series, results in some pretty good options for choosing what Cisco LAN switches work best for a CCNA home lab. In today’s post, [...]

I finally worked through part-timer Chris’s pricing data, gathered from eBay. The short version: 1721 is still a great model to use for CCNA labs, but two others join the mix as great price [...]

Part-timer Chris has been dutifully scouring eBay off-and-on for the last two months, checking for router and switch prices. Today, I’ll provide a few background details on routers, router [...]

You buy your used #CCNA router, and whoops – you didn’t check the IOS that was installed. You start to try a few commands, notably, the IPv6 config commands, and unfortunately, they aren’t [...]

As promised… I finally got all the clicking in Cisco Feature Navigator done, and the web page formatted. This post is a shortie, just to let you know the data is there, and give you the big [...]

If you did your #CCNA home lab homework from last week’s post, you probably learned a lot… including the fact that you can get frustrated using Cisco Feature Navigator (www.cisco.com/go/fn). [...]

At some point when building a #CCNA home lab, you will need to choose the specific devices, from the specific seller, to add to your home lab. For some of you, that choice may be stressful. [...]

Turn your #CCENT and #CCNA home lab search upside down for today’s post. Instead of thinking “I need routers”, think about routers as simply a place to run router IOS. Then, think about what [...]

A good home #CCENT and #CCNA home lab does not require IOS 15.x. There, I said it.  Even though Cisco touts the new CCENT and CCNA as being based on IOS 15 (a pretty broad statement in itself), [...]

To build a lab for #CCNA or #CCENT practice, you need to think about how many routers you need, how many switches, and how many interfaces of each type. To make those choices, you need to think [...]

Ask anyone who has achieved #CCNA or #CCENT about lab practice, and they’ll tell you that practicing all those Cisco commands is a must. It’s virtually impossible to pass these exams without some [...]