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whatthehell

What NIC is this? How do you like it? Can you please provide details? Thanks!

olaHalo wrote: »

Just two 2960s and two 2621s

I also got this amazing NIC on my workstation.

fov001

After reading all the comments here....this is what I got!

phonic

Just finished building this for my VCP lab. Once I'm done (soon I hope), I'll move on to some MS certs my company needs me to get:


Dell 2410 Cabinet
3x PE1950 Servers (esxi hosts)
1x PE2950 Server (iSCSI SAN)
1x Meraki MS Switch (general and iSCSI network)
1x Meraki MX Router
and some random Cisco routers I'm not currently using.

sucanushie

Finally the Skeletek rack has arrived!

Magic Johnson

Wow this thread is awesome! Must also account for at least 20% of the world's electricity usage?! Haha.

fov001

Not even man...everyone that looks at this thinks the same, but in reality, I only turn on my equipment on weekends to do some labbing for a few hours, and the ethernet power controller I have lets me manage / monitor electricity wattage.

olaHalo

whatthehell wrote: »

What NIC is this? How do you like it? Can you please provide details? Thanks!

There ya go
Amazon.com: Gigabit Et Quad Port Adapt: Electronics

Its expensive but I have seen them installed on cheap servers sold on ebay. The servers with the card cost less than the card.

I like it a lot. Makes labbing much easier especially when using VMs

whatthehell

Thanks for the info!
I agree that it is pretty pricey, but seems almost worth the cost.

olaHalo wrote: »

There ya go
Amazon.com: Gigabit Et Quad Port Adapt: Electronics

Its expensive but I have seen them installed on cheap servers sold on ebay. The servers with the card cost less than the card.

I like it a lot. Makes labbing much easier especially when using VMs

TechGuru80

Just ordered a Skeletek Rack, and have a 2960, 2511RJ, and 1841 coming then I will put up a picture!

Until then this has been my setup.

Top-down:
(2) - 2950
(1) - 3550
(3) - 2611xm (1 with CME)

navsuri

R1 cannot send packets to r3?????


R1

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r2

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r3

Exabyte

Am I prepared for CCENT Labs?

Cerebro

Exabyte wrote: »

Am I prepared for CCENT Labs?

Sweet mother of god, I think you just need some LED strip lights around the rack

gbdavidx

olaHalo wrote: »

You guys have some serious setups!

Here is my workstation at work.
Just beginning to study for CCENT.
Switches I ordered came in the mail already. Still waiting on the routers.

How do you get to study for CCENT at work, i hate my job!

bryantstewart

Here is a shot of the ccent lab that we are putting together at work. Still waiting for a few more modules/cables...

veritas_libertas

@BryantStewart: Can you say overkill? LOL

bryantstewart

veritas_libertas wrote: »

@BryantStewart: Can you say overkill? LOL

Haha This is actually what we are putting together to get through our CCNP studies.

olaHalo

gbdavidx wrote: »

How do you get to study for CCENT at work, i hate my job!

Perks of the nightshift

Corndork2

These are the standard Quad Intel NIC's installed in Dell Servers. You can find them for 20.00-30.00 on Ebay. They are PCI-E x8

Corndork2

whatthehell wrote: »

Thanks for the info!
I agree that it is pretty pricey, but seems almost worth the cost.

These are the Quad Intel Gigabit NIC's installed Dell Servers. They can be found on Ebay for about 20.00. If you guys need some I have close to 20 of them from server decommissions.

BobbyDC

I'd be interested in 1-2. I'm slowly building up my lab and these would be useful.

JaydenMoon

Awesome lab pics everyone - I hope to post mine soon!!

Krusty_47

Corndork2 wrote: »

These are the Quad Intel Gigabit NIC's installed Dell Servers. They can be found on Ebay for about 20.00. If you guys need some I have close to 20 of them from server decommissions.

I would like 2 as well if they are PCIe

JoseJimenez

Corndork2 wrote: »

These are the Quad Intel Gigabit NIC's installed Dell Servers. They can be found on Ebay for about 20.00. If you guys need some I have close to 20 of them from server decommissions.

More like $100+ for quad and about $50 for dual port.
Cheapest Sun Happy Meal Quad FastEthernet can be found for $20, but there's whole procedure to make it work on linux.

rowelld

Lots of great labs posted here.

My lab is rather simple, for now. On the top are two old Cisco 2507s which aren't being used at all. On the bottom I have two 2950s and one 3550 that I use to practice CCNP SWITCH labs on. Not quite enough to do all the labs but enough to get me going.

I use a Raspberry Pi as a console server to the switches. I keep the lab at work so all I do is VPN in and telnet to the rpi to access each switch.

LinuxRacr

fov001 wrote: »

After reading all the comments here....this is what I got!

How are you liking the DLI rackmount PDU? I thought about getting that one, but ended up going with the 8-port. Also, make sure you get the Android app if you have an Android phone.

Route->This

@fov001

What are your server specs? You have a nice clean setup! Whats the purpose of the patch panel?

fov001

LinuxRacr wrote: »

How are you liking the DLI rackmount PDU? I thought about getting that one, but ended up going with the 8-port. Also, make sure you get the Android app if you have an Android phone.

The ethernet controller is one of the best investments in this setup. I created a wake on lan script to send from the controller to the server and another Synology NAS I have.

this is well worth the money!! and the android app works fine, but I mostly use the web based interface from work.

fov001

Route->This wrote: »

@fov001

What are your server specs? You have a nice clean setup! Whats the purpose of the patch panel?

Basically I have an i7 2600K 32GB RAM and 256GB SSD - I have a separate Synology NAS with 8TB (Hybrid for redundancy) for data store.

the purpose of the patch panel is for practice on crimping, and makes the setup a bit more complex, similar to what you would see on the job (I am not a network admin, yet

staticz

Rebuilt the lab with some new equipment on Friday -




Server has 2 quad core Xeons, 20 GB of RAM and 12 NICs and will be used for GNS3. 2 3750G's and 3 3650's for layer 3 switching.
Should last through CCNP at a minimum.
Even though I didn't get it all finished, I thought I'd share. The ASA will be used as a VPN for remote access from home, and there is a KVM over IP sitting in the top of the rack to allow for access on the prod network. Also have patched a few network drops in our cubes for direct access.
We have a ton of equipment laying around so it was fun to get some of it back into service. Now it is time to get some studying done!

Doyen

This is my geeky network rack:



SWITCHES (11 Total):
1 x 3560-24-PS
7 x 2950-24
1 x 2950G-12
1 x 2950G-24
1 x 2950G-48

Routers (8 Total):
3 x 1760 (2 128MB/64 Flash)
1 x 2621XM Max Ram/Flash/VPN Module
1 x 2651XM Max Ram/Flash/VPN Module
1 x 2691 Max Ram/Flash/VPN Module
1 x 3725 Max Ram/Flash/VPN Module
1 x 3640

Access Console Server:
1 x Cyclades Afterpath Console Server-32

Storage:
2 x 6 unit drawers

Voice and Wireless Stuff:
2 x 7960G Cisco IP Phones
2 x Analog Telephones
2 x Cisco ATA 186
1 x Cisco ATA 188
2 x Cisco AP 1220B-A-K9
1 x Cisco AIR AP 1242G-A-K9

Rack:
7ft 2 Post Heavy Duty 19in Black Network Rack

Modules:
4 x Serial-4T
4 x WIC-2T
1 x WIC-1T
1 x Voice-2V


The room is still kinda messy from having to rearrange the room for my Cisco lab rack. I am still making rollover cords and straight cables. The only 3 things missing on the top were 3 power supplies that will probably be 8 or 11 AC slots. The primary purpose of this lab is to cover the routing/switching CCNA to CCIE, but unsure about the new "version 5" of CCIE. Since the security is similar to the routing/switching side, I may invest in getting an ASA firewall to play with. Ultimately, given the time, I do plan on getting CCNA in wireless and voice as well, at the very least, since that intrigues me as well. An opinions on how to improve it are greatly appreciated.

EDIT:
When I get around to it, I'll take a better photo. I didn't realize how fuzzy it was until I uploaded it