CCNA Home Lab...will these work

dookdook

Hi all

I know questions like this are asked a million times, but just wondering if anyone with experience could clarify if the routers i have will be fine for doing the CCNA (latest 2013/2014 version)

I've dug around our basement at work and found the following routers:

Cisco 1801
Cisco 1841 (has a 64MB Flash card in, so would that mean this is the 256/64 version which supports IOS15?)
Cisco 2811 (Has a HWIC 4ESW card in it)

From what i can tell, they should all work fine for the CCNA.

Then obviously i need switches, and i'm looking at buying 2 x 2950's and 1 x 3550.


Thanks folks.

JeanM

Yes, these are more than enough for CCNA... you just need to think about connectivity part (what modules and connections you plan on making, Ethernet only?)

dookdook

Cheers JeanM

Yeah, i'll probably by a couple of serial cards and cables too, so i can have a mix of that + ethernet.

Any suggestions on which i should get to match up with the CCNA lab exercises?

dookdook

Actually from what i'm seeing, it shows 2 Routers with a single serial port in, and the 3rd router with 2 serial ports in (acting as a hub)

That sound about right?

MTciscoguy

I would do the 1841, and the 2811 in addition, I would spend a couple of bucks more and get the 2960 switches and the 3550, then you should be good to go.

dookdook

Thanks Mtciscoguy.