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Home Lab for CCNP 1
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Ebay is the most easily accessable. Sometimes you can find a good deal if you do the legwork going to second hand shops etc.
A guy where I work got a fully loaded 3640 for less than $100 at a farm bankruptcy auction. Most bidders didn't know what it was, let alone what it was worth 8)
A guy where I work got a fully loaded 3640 for less than $100 at a farm bankruptcy auction. Most bidders didn't know what it was, let alone what it was worth 8)
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For CCNP you will probably want to go with the 2621 router and the 2950 series switches. The 1700 series would also be good for a lab. Only drawback is the single fast ethernet port. A second ethernet port can be added with a wic-1enet but the wic is 10base-t full duplex at best. Can add WAN wics to the 1700 at a pretty reasonable price though. Some 1700's are also voice capable but need PVDM module (packet voice data module) in it to support voice wics.
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