CCIE v5 Lab
What are you all using to lab for the CCIE v5 lab? Rack Rental, GNS3 or something else?
I'm thinking about buying INE's Workbook and purchasing Rack Rental time. Has anyone used INE for Rack Rental? What do you think?
Thanks
I'm thinking about buying INE's Workbook and purchasing Rack Rental time. Has anyone used INE for Rack Rental? What do you think?
Thanks
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My experience is that gns3/dynamips is kind of broken when it comes to DMVPN/mGRE/IPsec stuff, but your miles may vary as I didn't use the latest dynamips (it's in development with regular releases atm). The errors I got were mostly about control plane packets getting corrupted as they went through the DMVPN cloud, and I have no idea why or know how to find out why. As far as I'm concerned, if you are going virtual and not using the real stuff (csr1000v) you might as well use IOU for L3. I recently did INE's entire BGP section and had a 100% success rate.
I got the All Access Pass for 2 years which cost me a bit under $2000 for two years and included about 1500 tokens at the time (assuming 6 tokens per session, this works out to about 250 hours). Pretty good value really considering it includes all the videos for all CCIE tracks as well.
I'm able to run 20 CSR's and I've got 4 switches and 5 physical routers (3x1841 and 2x3745 i've been loaned)
I'm the same way. It is just so easy to use and no where near the resources requirements of other options.
The extra resource wasn't an issue for me as I have an i5 based server anyways - I just needed to add RAM. For the sake of the 20GB of RAM - I am confident that I won't hit a bug with the CSR's but that's my preference.
There are a handful you will run into but mostly its accepted and if i'm thinking that it is or not sure i switch over to gns3 in a smaller setup to verify
Would you be kind enough to draw a quick pic of how you wire all this stuff up (virtually and physically) please?
M.S. Internet Engineering | M.S. Information Assurance
B.S. Information Technology | A.A.S Information Technology
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Currently pursuing: CCIE R&Sv5