Pick change as of :12/16/2007::I have 2 servers below that house VMWARE 5.X and hold XP pro machines as VM. These are my clients in my multidomain, multiprotocol network. I use VMs because easy to backup to a 160USB drive just in case of system HDD crashing. I will be ready to restore really fast since I make 2 of everything! My disaster recovery scheme is I have all VMs and backup to 160GB usb drives. I try to keep them current. And if failure, I can restore as fast as it copies it back in place! Bam! Done! no big wait time!
I have added a 1200 Aironet Cisco Access point (next to my blue Linksys peace of crap). And only 2 2950 switches with Etherchannel configured. Along with my PIX 501 brand new off of ebay for under $100.00....Brand New in box not even opened! most have gone new for $500.00.. I am sure there are better deals thoughs of you who have gotten your PIX for $2.00 off of ebay but I am happy getting mine under $100.00 and brand spanking new!!! My 802 lab is ready for studying Chris Bryant CCNA 802 material. Ready to go! Est Time of Exam Pass for me is April 2008.
This is my home CCNA lab. I bought all the green devices (cisco) off of ebay. It cost me about $1500.00 USD for my entire lab. All of the pretty colored cables on the switches are VTP trunking. I made all the cross-over cable myself. You have to know how to make cables when you are a network guru! Next pics are about how to make cross-over cables. Play-play-play! You have to--to be great in IT!
