Making my lab better (Netbook?)

drew2000

Ok guys, I have a pretty darn good Cisco lab, but I have a few issues:

---When my baby daughter actually takes a nap, my wife and I both want to use my computer at the same time, thus preventing access to my Cisco Lab.

---I like to keep my Cisco Lab powered off when not in use to save energy.

I was thinking of buying a netbook or cheap laptop for me to use to access my Cisco Lab while my wife is on the computer.

My Internet service is Verizon FIOS, so I have an 802.11g wireless router with an integrated four port switch (one port is for my PC).

If I added a netbook or cheap laptop, I think what I would do is connect one of my Cisco routers or switches to my Verizon switch (using a crossover if a switch), and then giving the device a private IP from my Fios Router (so that it would be reachable by my wireless netbook, which would also have a private IP from the router). That device would then act as a "bridge" to the IP networks I really use for Cisco (mostly class B private).

What do you think?

Drew

PS: my current LAB is:

3 x 2950's
3 x 25xx's
1 x 1721 with a dual serial card

dynamik

Sounds like a plan

I do the same thing, but I connect to my 2511. That way, I can reverse telnet into any of my other devices if I mess up a config.