Check out this router.

JayrodEF

Hey all. I am yet to really start studying for a CCNA, but I'm looking at routers and such on eBay. I was looking into a 2514 router and found this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Cisco-2500-Series-Router-Model-2514_W0QQitemZ320203195355QQihZ011QQcategoryZ64061QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Being only 24 bucks, I would assume this doesn't have the 16/16 memory or something? Would this be adequate for a CCNA lab? The price seems too good to be useful almost. Thanks for the help!

hypnotoad

Looks good to me...nice shipping price too ($5!). What would it take to hook 2 of these up over a serial link?

JayrodEF

Any other thoughts? I'd love to pick one of these up if it's will work for a CCNA lab.

GT-Rob

Yes it would be good, but I would suggest getting 2, and a crossover serial cable to connect them together. That way for still very little money you could do a fair bit with them.

JayrodEF

Thanks for the input. I've already got a 2501 that I picked up pretty cheap too.

remyforbes777

I didn't see a description on the memory it has nor what IOS it has included. Any idea?

shednik

JayrodEF wrote:

Hey all. I am yet to really start studying for a CCNA, but I'm looking at routers and such on eBay. I was looking into a 2514 router and found this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Cisco-2500-Series-Router-Model-2514_W0QQitemZ320203195355QQihZ011QQcategoryZ64061QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Being only 24 bucks, I would assume this doesn't have the 16/16 memory or something? Would this be adequate for a CCNA lab? The price seems too good to be useful almost. Thanks for the help!

Unless i missed it while skimming I'd want a show version output because you'll want to know what version of IOS is on there. Here's the output of a show version on my 2514:

R3#sh ver
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) 2500 Software (C2500-JK8OS-L), Version 12.2(1b), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-2001 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Fri 15-Jun-01 04:05 by pwade
Image text-base: 0x0307EEC8, data-base: 0x00001000

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 11.0(10c), SOFTWARE
BOOTFLASH: 3000 Bootstrap Software (IGS-BOOT-R), Version 11.0(10c), RELEASE SOFT
WARE (fc1)

R3 uptime is 4 minutes
System returned to ROM by power-on
System image file is "flash:/c2500-jk8os-l.122-1b.bin"

cisco 2500 (68030) processor (revision L) with 14336K/2048K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID 10602135, with hardware revision 00000000
Bridging software.
X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
SuperLAT software (copyright 1990 by Meridian Technology Corp).
TN3270 Emulation software.
2 Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
2 Serial network interface(s)
32K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
16384K bytes of processor board System flash (Read ONLY)

Configuration register is 0x2102

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I know the new exam is based off of 12.4 but you should be able to get buy with 12.2