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I am planning out a Cisco home lab for the CCNA, was hoping some kind sirs could lend advice. Any advice would be much appreciated, thank you:) I have been doing some research and here are screen shots of what CBT Nuggets recommends buying when building a home lab for the CCNA, CCNP & CCIE, So I'm thinking I should buy 2x Cisco 3550 switches and 2x Cisco 2600/2611/2621(xm) routers which should take me through the CCNA, for the CCNP I would only need to add 2x Cisco 1841 and 1x Cisco 3620/3640 which I could buy later. It looks like this stuff could be reused in a CCIE home lab as well. How does this equipment look to everyone? Would you agree with CBT Nuggets that this is the best equipment to get when creating a home lab for the CCNA? Would this equipment still be useful later down the road when studying for the CCNP / CCIE? Will this home lab equipment become obsolete in the next few years?

If I were to begin studying for the CCIE in 2 or 3 years from now, would it be likely this equipment will need to be upgraded? I found many versions of the Catalyst 3550 on the Cisco website Which version should I get? I believe CBT nuggets stated POE would be necessary. Do all of these fit the bill or should I try and get a specific model? In the picture a WS-C3550-24-SMI is shown, should I go for that? I heard there is an inline version, what does that do and should I get it? I tried to cross reference this info and here is what I found at ccnahomelab.com It appears to check out but states you need a 2600xm, what is the difference between the 2600 series with XM and without?

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On the next page they state slightly different CCNP recommendations than CBT Nuggets 'If you are wanting to do some advanced stuff, or wanting to really go for CCNP then:- 4 routers and 2 (3 at a push) switches – (4 x 26XM’s and 3 x 3550′s)' Which recommendation is better? I found this ingenious rack on wiki.eth-0.nl Would using this rack be fine or should I get an official Cisco rack? E-bay and Craigslist, I'm assuming these are the two best places to find good deals on Cisco equipment, any one know of any other places that are better or worth checking out? I'm currently studying for my CCNA and picked up two 2611xm routers. I should have picked up one more, but they served me well. Ideally you would want three routers (so you can view the changes in path based on routing protocol) and three switches (for spanning tree).

I also picked up 2950 switches, again they served me well. Not sure how much more the 3550s are but if there is a significant jump in price, I'd go with 2950 or 2960s. All this equipment I picked up supports IPv6 which is where the CCNA, CCNP questions are headed. The 2600 series I used to study with are already 'obsolete' as in EOL, but many offices are still running them and they served me well for studying. Take what you can from this but I wasn't looking ahead to the CCNP just yet so that might have influenced my purchases a bit. I bought all from eBay.

With time and patience you can find good deals. Speaking from my experience (3xCCNA, I've passed CCNP ROUTE and I'm working on SWITCH now). Save money wherever you can, unless you seriously just have money to burn I would recommend using Packet Tracer and GNS3 wherever possible.

I got through CCNP with just GNS3 without a problem, for free, and without needing to deal with the noise/electricity/heat from running equipment. And you don't have to deal with collecting old CSU-DSU, serial cables, HWICs, etc. As for racks, I got one of those little 12U two-post racks for like 40$ bucks off ebay I think. Download buku erlangga.