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Cisco hardware and Ebay
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CiscoGuy33
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OK - so the Ebay gods and Mr. UPS man was good to me again - this time it was a Cisco 1231 AP - this thing still has the Cisco warrenty card in the box
This is in the orginal boxes, has the wall mounting brackets, power cube and power injector, antena, cables, docs - EVERYTHING and it works like a charm ........ $65
These are the same exact Cisco APs that I put up here at school about 4-5 years ago for about $1,200 each
Will play with it at school until my place for it at home is ready ......
I am redoing my office at home, got an IBM P4 desktop PC at New Egg for $134 with free shipping and NO TAX, this will be my new firewall - IP Cop - which I have used for years or one of the other flavors of LINUX. I have got the extra NICs. I put IP Cop on an older Dell P4 260 at work to "play with" in the Cisco lab and it just flys with the P4 and a GIG of RAM.
I also got a 24 inch widescreen monitor from Dell (on sale - education deal) - will shift things around in my home office to get back in "study mode" for VoIP, wireless and more security. I hope to be reporting good things on a 1760V router soon!!!
Just had to report on the latest Ebay Cisco finding!!
E.A. Broda
CCNA, CCDA, CCAI, Network +
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CiscoGuy33
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Billy,
I have not been back there in a while - hmmm Cisco 1760V (VWIC-1MFT-T1, VIC-2FXS, WIC-1DSU-T1, WIC-4ESw) - will have to learn what most of these are
but some of his other voice stuff is stunning!!!!! And his security stuff - WOW!!! I don't know enough about Juniper equipment but I am sure it is a wow factor also!!!! Must be nice when most your routers are 2811's - I count 13 on the one rack!!!
Burt,
Thanks, I have no more room for any servers (at least at home) at work I have 2 Dell Pentium Pro servers (1 looks like a mini frig on wheels or a square R2D2) and 2 Gateway 2000 P-Pro servers if needed. I have not followed some of your other posts???
E.A. Broda
CCNA, CCDA, CCAI, Network +
I know what you mean Gene,
He said that he uses this to demo various compatibility issues and make sure that a customer setup will work before the customer commits to the design.. pretty cool.. That is an insane amount of 28xx's.. especially when one is sitting there with a 32A in it labeled spare! LoL
The Juniper equipment is nice too! Believe it or not he said that it was more pricey than the Cisco stuff that he has! That's crazy!
B Haines
CCNA R&S, ETA FOI
He said that he uses this to demo various compatibility issues and make sure that a customer setup will work before the customer commits to the design.. pretty cool.. That is an insane amount of 28xx's.. especially when one is sitting there with a 32A in it labeled spare! LoL
The Juniper equipment is nice too! Believe it or not he said that it was more pricey than the Cisco stuff that he has! That's crazy!
B Haines
CCNA R&S, ETA FOI
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CiscoGuy33
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Billy,
Funny thing is that I have been looking at the Uber Geek site for years and NEVER put together or noticed it was Scott Morris - might have but did not really know who he was until I started hanging out with you over at the Cisco Learning Network and noticed these posts from this CCIE
Funny thing is the Crunchy guy over in the voice post talking about lack of help in forums and here is a 5 or 6 time CCIE (technically he is a 4 time CCIE but that is just a matter of time) who answers ALOT of questions over in that Cisco forum and I know he is in other forums also and he does answer a lot of questions and from some newbies also!!
Back to my Ebay purchase - got the 3524 POE switch for like $60, came yesterday and it works just fine, already blew away the config to get password access and backed up the IOS on my TFTP. I have 2 Cisco 7910 VoIP phones on the way - $10 each as well as Cisco SoftPhone so I will be able to start doing some HANDS-ON VoIP labs starting next week. Will have to keep reading and watching the CBTs to determine what Voice WICs I will need!!
Or I can see how to use the MC 3810, which I fired up for the first time and it works just fine - backed up the IOS to TFTP. It has FXO and FXS ports already installed as well as 2 serial connections and a T1 (I think ?) - I know it is old but it is fun to learn the technology from the ground up!!!
Here is the ironic department - 8 months ago I bought 5 or 6 rack mout ears (deal)for 1900-2900-3500 switches - they all are the same, because I was getting some switches for work and EVERYTHING at work is rack mounted to make it harder to walk away I think I have picked up 7-8 switches since then and even though they do not show rack ears in the auctions - THEY ALL HAVE COME WITH RACK EARS now if I did not have those extra rack ears - none of them would have them. I think I will buy an EXTRA box of $20 bills ........
Just some thoughts!
E.A. Broda
CCNA, CCDA, CCAI, Network +
Funny thing is that I have been looking at the Uber Geek site for years and NEVER put together or noticed it was Scott Morris - might have but did not really know who he was until I started hanging out with you over at the Cisco Learning Network and noticed these posts from this CCIE
Funny thing is the Crunchy guy over in the voice post talking about lack of help in forums and here is a 5 or 6 time CCIE (technically he is a 4 time CCIE but that is just a matter of time) who answers ALOT of questions over in that Cisco forum and I know he is in other forums also
and he does answer a lot of questions and from some newbies also!!Back to my Ebay purchase - got the 3524 POE switch for like $60, came yesterday and it works just fine, already blew away the config to get password access and backed up the IOS on my TFTP. I have 2 Cisco 7910 VoIP phones on the way - $10 each as well as Cisco SoftPhone so I will be able to start doing some HANDS-ON VoIP labs starting next week. Will have to keep reading and watching the CBTs to determine what Voice WICs I will need!!
Or I can see how to use the MC 3810, which I fired up for the first time and it works just fine - backed up the IOS to TFTP. It has FXO and FXS ports already installed as well as 2 serial connections and a T1 (I think ?) - I know it is old but it is fun to learn the technology from the ground up!!!
Here is the ironic department - 8 months ago I bought 5 or 6 rack mout ears (deal
)for 1900-2900-3500 switches - they all are the same, because I was getting some switches for work and EVERYTHING at work is rack mounted to make it harder to walk away I think I have picked up 7-8 switches since then and even though they do not show rack ears in the auctions - THEY ALL HAVE COME WITH RACK EARS now if I did not have those extra rack ears - none of them would have them. I think I will buy an EXTRA box of $20 bills ........ Just some thoughts!
E.A. Broda
CCNA, CCDA, CCAI, Network +
The 850R is a rackmount, 3U. I stuck two 18GB 10K U2 SCSI drives in it. I might put Win2K Advanced Server on it, and make it a Cisco ACS server, or give it away...
I also have a few Dell Optiplex GX260's with P4's, one fully loaded (40GB HDD, 1GB RAM, CDROM, 4mm DAT tape drive, dual boot XP Pro SP3 and Ubuntu 8.10), the unloaded one needs a hard drive (have a few) and RAM.
Might also have a few other servers, like a PL5500 (Proliant), which is another R2D2 on wheels, two PL1200's, two PL3000's, a PL2500 and a PL6000, and an HP 5Si printer. Come get it all!
My Cisco lab is coming along now...
(3)Cat2924XL's
(3)Cat2980G's (CatOS)
(1)Cat4912 (CatOS)
(3)2620's
(1)2620XM
(1)2503
(1)3620
(1)1720
About 6 WIC-1T's, 4 or 5 WIC-1DSU-T1, 1 WIC-1ADSL, 1 WIC-1CSU/DSU-56K
NOT giving any of THAT away...lol
Burt
I also have a few Dell Optiplex GX260's with P4's, one fully loaded (40GB HDD, 1GB RAM, CDROM, 4mm DAT tape drive, dual boot XP Pro SP3 and Ubuntu 8.10), the unloaded one needs a hard drive (have a few) and RAM.
Might also have a few other servers, like a PL5500 (Proliant), which is another R2D2 on wheels, two PL1200's, two PL3000's, a PL2500 and a PL6000, and an HP 5Si printer. Come get it all!
My Cisco lab is coming along now...
(3)Cat2924XL's
(3)Cat2980G's (CatOS)
(1)Cat4912 (CatOS)
(3)2620's
(1)2620XM
(1)2503
(1)3620
(1)1720
About 6 WIC-1T's, 4 or 5 WIC-1DSU-T1, 1 WIC-1ADSL, 1 WIC-1CSU/DSU-56K
NOT giving any of THAT away...lol
Burt
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CiscoGuy33
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Burt,
I love those Dell Optiplex GX260's, I have 15 of them in my lab at work, most I have upped the RAM to 2 GIGs and I have Kingston removeable harddrive enclosures in the top bay, so I can swap drives and go from Windows to LINUX - the new Dell OPtiplex 740s need a smaller removeable harddrive system so I have a ton of carriers for the Kingston's and plenty of 40 GIG IDE drives to "play" with.
As for my labs, I have my old 2500 lab that I keep at work (14 2500 routers and 2 switches), my new Cisco lab that is at work (my equipment - 6 routers and 7 switches) and my home Cisco lab, for playing when I am not at work.
I am putting together a VoIP lab that has a 1760-V, 3524-POE switch, MC3810 and 2 7910 IP phones so far, it is slowly coming together
If you want to see pictures of the old lab and new lab just follow the link, both have a logical diagram -
Enjoy, I do need to update the "new" lab pictures because it has changed a little.
E.A. Broda
CCNA, CCDA, CCAI, Network +
I love those Dell Optiplex GX260's, I have 15 of them in my lab at work, most I have upped the RAM to 2 GIGs and I have Kingston removeable harddrive enclosures in the top bay, so I can swap drives and go from Windows to LINUX - the new Dell OPtiplex 740s need a smaller removeable harddrive system so I have a ton of carriers for the Kingston's and plenty of 40 GIG IDE drives to "play" with.
As for my labs, I have my old 2500 lab that I keep at work (14 2500 routers and 2 switches), my new Cisco lab that is at work (my equipment - 6 routers and 7 switches) and my home Cisco lab, for playing when I am not at work.
I am putting together a VoIP lab that has a 1760-V, 3524-POE switch, MC3810 and 2 7910 IP phones so far, it is slowly coming together
If you want to see pictures of the old lab and new lab just follow the link, both have a logical diagram -
Enjoy, I do need to update the "new" lab pictures because it has changed a little.
E.A. Broda
CCNA, CCDA, CCAI, Network +
I'm slowly getting my VoIP lab put together. Just got CME running on a GNS3 router that's connected to my 2950 switch. Couple of mc3810 routers with fxs interfaces, a 2507, 2511 access server.
Got a couple of 2610xm's just waiting for me to bring home from work. Have a 7940 ip phone on it's way (hopefully), and the ip softphone.
Got an old 4500 series router that used to be my frame-relay switch...planing on using a 2600 at some point since I've got plenty of wic-2t's and external csu's available to me.
Got a couple of 2610xm's just waiting for me to bring home from work. Have a 7940 ip phone on it's way (hopefully), and the ip softphone.
Got an old 4500 series router that used to be my frame-relay switch...planing on using a 2600 at some point since I've got plenty of wic-2t's and external csu's available to me.
silverhairb
IS-IT--Management
Burp,
I had the PCMCIA card as a "rescue module" for when the system failed to boot from flash. The 3640s had two flash sticks. I would remove them and swap positions so the system wouldn't boot from them, but would revert to the PCMCIA card running a small early IOS. Then I would erase flash and reload a different IOS.
I recall reading that the 3620 had some serious limitations on IOS. Seems like the latest it could realistically loaded to flash was about 12.3(15) IP Plus (is-mz). Others were advertised as working but needed to be loaded at boot time via tftp.
I might be wrong about the release level but definitely recall an IOS limitation.
[the other] Bill
I had the PCMCIA card as a "rescue module" for when the system failed to boot from flash. The 3640s had two flash sticks. I would remove them and swap positions so the system wouldn't boot from them, but would revert to the PCMCIA card running a small early IOS. Then I would erase flash and reload a different IOS.
I recall reading that the 3620 had some serious limitations on IOS. Seems like the latest it could realistically loaded to flash was about 12.3(15) IP Plus (is-mz). Others were advertised as working but needed to be loaded at boot time via tftp.
I might be wrong about the release level but definitely recall an IOS limitation.
[the other] Bill
I sent Bill a field notice for the 3640 that said (I also believe 12.4(15) was the most recent IOS that could be booted locally due to flash size limitations... Cisco kept creating IOS's and adding features which put it over the size allowed.. Can still RCP or TFTP (remote) boot the new IOS's though... After the move (and the cruise) I am going to designate one server as a TFTP (instead of using laptop) and boot the newer IOS on all of the 3640's! Will be good for CCSP!
B Haines
CCNA R&S, ETA FOI
B Haines
CCNA R&S, ETA FOI
What the heck.. I dug up the field notice..
3640 - Some IOS images exceed 32 MB flash capacity
Could not locate anything similar on the 3620 though!
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This is pretty cool.. "The life of a packet"! Looks like a good read but unfortunately it requires a CCO login just to read it and I don't seem to have permission.. LoL...
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B Haines
CCNA R&S, ETA FOI
3640 - Some IOS images exceed 32 MB flash capacity
Could not locate anything similar on the 3620 though!
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This is pretty cool.. "The life of a packet"! Looks like a good read but unfortunately it requires a CCO login just to read it and I don't seem to have permission.. LoL...
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B Haines
CCNA R&S, ETA FOI
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