CCNP Lab (Physical)

TehToG

I got a rather good deal on some routers and so I was wondering if someone could give me an idea if this would be enough for CCNP. I'm planning to play about with it for a few months while I get my MCSA:2012 but I want to fall back on the Cisco stuff when I get bored with the MS stuff.

4 x 2950s
1 x 3550
3 x 2801
1 x 1841
1 x 2610

After my MCSA I'm looking to go after CCNP or CCNA voice and I was wondering if someone could comment on how suitable this would be. I'm looking to add a 3560G or 3750 POE into the mix if I can find one cheap enough.

edit: I do have a few ESXi hosts too. I'm hoping not to have to run a GNS3 instance as they're not that powerful

theodoxa

You will need another Layer 3 switch for CCNP, preferably a 3560 or 3750 for IPv6 and PVLAN support. 2 x 3560 would be even better, but 3550s will cover most of the CCNP topics. The 2801's are good for Voice since they support VICs/VWICs/PVDMs (Analog Voice) and VoIP. I used a 2801 as my CME router [before I decided to focus on CCNA: Security and CCNP: R&S instead.]

If you want to run the TSHOOT topology, it is based on 4 x 3750 Switches, 6 x Routers (4 x Your Network, 1 x Frame Relay Switch, and 1 x ISP for BGP), 2 Servers, and a Client PC. You can substitute 3560's (only changes the port numbering -- 3750 uses 3 numbers separated by slashes and the 3550/3560 use two numbers separated by slashes) or 2960's at the Access Layer (You will have to change the Port-Channel numbers to single digit as the 2960 doesn't support 2 digit Port-Channel numbers).