Cisco Home Lab

pearljam

I have lab equipment that I want to put on a separate network from my home network. My modem and home router are in a separate room from which I am going to be putting my Cisco equipment. How do I go about this?

2 Cisco 2611
2 Cisco 2950
1 Cisco 2509

pearljam

Does this answer my question?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIFKmJ4wufc

Deathmage

Welcome to the forum!!!!!! so many CCNA home-lab questions on the boards today..

I just made a posting on this topic here: http://www.techexams.net/forums/ccna-ccent/114238-ccna-home-lab.html

If you need help with suggestions check out my blog posting here on my website for ideas: Home Lab - I.T.HINK ...So you don't have too...

If you have any questions afterwards let us know.

TWX

Is that 2611 a 2611XM, or just a straight 2611? When I took some training they used 2621XMs and 2950 switches, and apparently they had to pick a very specific IOS image to make the router behave like the current curriculum calls for. I tried some regular 2621 routers and they could not run a new enough IOS to exhibit similar behavior, I ended up shopping for 2800-series which are plentiful and cheap where I live.

For what it's worth after I got a functioning base config on my 2851 I actually made it my home production router. Nothing like being dependent on it to force one to learn how to take care of it.