An offer you can't refuse

njcowboy

as a engineer for a large company, I have access to some nice equipment
I know I am privledged to have access to the equipment that I do.

I would be willing, for free to supply a 3560 switch, until I need it. for someone to play with.

I can provide telnet access into my network and you can start from fresh with it.

in my opinion, switches are the biggest pain with the CCNA.

A router is easy. there are less than 15 commands needed to setup and make it route with a routing protocol. but with VLAN, STP, Etherchannel, Switchport Mode and Switchport Access, there is alot to learn.

I will have a couple of rules for the first person that wants it. PM me.

The first person to screw it up ruins it for the next.

Netstudent

WOW what an offer!

COOL!

dtlokee

njcowboy wrote:

I will have a couple of rules for the first person that wants it. PM me.

The first person to screw it up ruins it for the next.

Don't let Netstudent go first

Netstudent

Oh ya real funny lokee ha-ha!

I'll make that switch sing! :P

IN all seriousness, I would definately take up that offer but I have 4 3550's here at school.

njcowboy

Here are the specs of an identical switch that I have for internal bulding to building Wireless routing over a 200 MB full duplex ceragon fiberAire network running Eigrp

The only thing I don't have on this switch is NAT, but I can setup a 1600 router with NAT if you really need it.

I am just trying to help someone out that doesn't have the money or time to buy equipment and needs some "rack time" to play with the commands.

Hands on is the most crucial way to learn the commands. IMHO. You can read all you want, but if you don't experience it, you will not pass the test.


Cisco IOS Software, C3560 Software (C3560-IPSERVICES-M), Version 12.2(25)SEE2, R
ELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-2006 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Fri 28-Jul-06 07:19 by yenanh
Image text-base: 0x00003000, data-base: 0x0109B370

ROM: Bootstrap program is C3560 boot loader
BOOTLDR: C3560 Boot Loader (C3560-HBOOT-M) Version 12.2(25r)SEE4, RELEASE SOFTWA
RE (fc1)

admin-rtr uptime is 17 weeks, 9 hours, 37 minutes
System returned to ROM by power-on
System restarted at 11:44:15 EDT Wed Apr 11 2007
System image file is "flash:c3560-ipservices-mz.122-25.SEE2/c3560-ipservices-mz.
122-25.SEE2.bin"

cisco WS-C3560G-24TS (PowerPC405) processor (revision D0) with 118784K/12280K by
tes of memory.
Processor board ID FOC1051Y5QU
Last reset from power-on
1 Virtual Ethernet interface
28 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
The password-recovery mechanism is enabled.

Rearden

I'd take it, but we have around 50 3560Gs with PoE on campus at the moment. They're a whole lot of fun to play with.

I just spent the other day setting up tacacs+ authentication/authorization/accounting. I got tacacs to talk to PAM so now I can log on with my account on the server it's running on. But it is so cool seeing status updates as they happen from the accounting/syslog features.

ITdude

Yea, watch out for that Netstudent guy he might smoke that sucker!

seuss_ssues

Ive also thought of offering remote access to some of my equipment. Ive got 3 25xx routers and 2 2610XM that are gathering dust.

If ive got some free time ill design a good method for accessing it all and give some peeps access.

Darthn3ss

i've also been thinking about making my rack available since i don't use it much right now (will be starting again to finish CCNA studies soon, though.)

ITdude

Thanks for giving guys. That is just one of the reasons that this such a great forum!

LOkrasa

Dibs on the switch after whoever is in front of me. lol I have access to nothing other then the stuff I pay for with my own $.... I work as a help desk analyst and I get no access to that stuff.