At 3:40 AM -0400 4/19/02, Kaminski, Shawn G wrote: >Yes, I think it's a good idea to purchase your own equipment. It's there >whenever you need it, you can do whatever you want with it, and you're more >apt to practice on it if it's right down the hall! > >Shawn K.
:-) I can argue this from both perspectives. On the one hand, I am involved in a virtual rack business (suitable disclaimers apply). The advantages there are not having to purchase expensive and specialized equipment, predefined scenarios and other educational material, and technical support. It's also easier on cash flow. Again with all due caveats, I really think a remote rack is a better learning technique--even if that "remote rack" is in your house and accessed via a terminal server. When you get into the real operations world, all your routers are NOT going to be in the same room, and you might as well get experience doing things through a console. The new CCIE lab also is structured this way. As an instructor, I found the newer students did seem to derive a certain comfort level from actually being able to see the equipment, but quite honestly, I found this to be a mental crutch. Until you really master remote console access, telnetting between routers, etc., you aren't going to get the speed for the CCIE lab. If you're at the CCNA level and can afford it, the tradeoffs are somewhat different. Having 2 or 3 (preferably) cheap routers (e.g., 2501) and perhaps a switch could be a cheap way to get comfortable with the CLI. It's a whole different world when you need ISDN, ATM, voice, etc., simulators. But Shawn, you also remind me (I'm a telecommuter) that I have a fairly good gym in my house. I'm not nearly as likely to get into my car and drive to the local gym than I am to jump on the exercise bike or do some bench presses when Cisco has rotted my brain. Of course, to the best of my knowledge, nobody has gotten cyberbodybuilding to work (I'm not talking about morphed images). > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: CODETEL [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 7:56 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Home LAB [7:41897] >> >> Hello guys.. >> I want to know if it's good idea to buy Cisco Homelab for practice >> yourself >> in your home if you want to be CCIE? >> > > what are you think about practice in your own lab? > -- "What Problem are you trying to solve?" ***send Cisco questions to the list, so all can benefit -- not directly to me*** ******************************************************************************** Howard C. Berkowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technology Officer, GettLab/Gett Communications http://www.gettlabs.com Technical Director, CertificationZone.com http://www.certificationzone.com "retired" Certified Cisco Systems Instructor (CID) #93005 Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=41935&t=41897 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
