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Number of physical NICs for dynamips lab?

dynamikdynamik Banned Posts: 12,312 ■■■■■■■■■□
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I'll hopefully be moving on to my NP studies by the end of the month, and I think I'm going to go the dynamips/dynagen route. I was curious about how many physical NICs I'm going to need in order to connect to my switches and do the relevant labwork. I already have a few, but they're not compatible with Vista/7 icon_sad.gif

Also, I have three 2950s and one 3550. I believe a second 3550 is recommended. Is that correct?
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    wastedtimewastedtime Member Posts: 586 ■■■■□□□□□□
    I have only browsed through the BCMSN lab book and I do know it recommended a low end WLC, 2x 1242, 2x 3560(aka 3550 for us budget builders), 2x 2960, and a few routers.

    Heh, oh ya the main question:
    Not sure about BSCI but BCMSN it doesn't look like many.
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    tierstentiersten Member Posts: 4,505
    Trunk it to a switch and then break it out there?
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    rsuttonrsutton Member Posts: 1,029 ■■■■■□□□□□
    dynamik wrote: »
    I'll hopefully be moving on to my NP studies by the end of the month

    Do you take the ICND2 yet?
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    dynamikdynamik Banned Posts: 12,312 ■■■■■■■■■□
    I'm up in a week or two.
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    veritas_libertasveritas_libertas Member Posts: 5,746 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Out of curiosity Dynamik, did you have to have a router to do the CCNA? I am hoping to avoid having to buy one when I start my CCNA studies.
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    mikej412mikej412 Member Posts: 10,086 ■■■■■■■■■■
    At a minimum you'd probably want 2 network cards working with dynamips that you could plug directly into your switches.
    :mike: Cisco Certifications -- Collect the Entire Set!
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    dynamikdynamik Banned Posts: 12,312 ■■■■■■■■■□
    veritas_libertas wrote: »
    Out of curiosity Dynamik, did you have to have a router to do the CCNA? I am hoping to avoid having to buy one when I start my CCNA studies.

    I have a mix of 2500s and 2600s in addition to the switches. I'm glad I spent the time playing around with actual equipment, but I'm tight on space and need money, so I'm going to start selling them off. I just need to quit being lazy and get the specs on all of them, so I can post them up icon_redface.gif
    mikej412 wrote: »
    At a minimum you'd probably want 2 network cards working with dynamips that you could plug directly into your switches.

    What would be ideal? I don't want to go overboard, but I want to make sure I can adequately perform necessary tasks.
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    CyanicCyanic Member Posts: 289
    Here is a thread on a CCIE who used a single NIC.

    http://7200emu.hacki.at/viewtopic.php?t=7540&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=d1ff9098e22f7b079f8971fc80dc37df
    Cy

    http://www.mashtronauts.com
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    ColbyGColbyG Member Posts: 1,264
    dynamik wrote: »
    What would be ideal? I don't want to go overboard, but I want to make sure I can adequately perform necessary tasks.

    Ideally you would have one or two quad port NICs. I don't think you'd have much of an issue with only two, or none at all. You could do your routing stuff in Mips and your switching stuff with your physical stuff.

    Also, one 3550 is enough for BCMSN, two is better, but one is enough.
    http://blog.alwaysthenetwork.com
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    dynamikdynamik Banned Posts: 12,312 ■■■■■■■■■□
    Cool. Thanks everyone :D
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    gorebrushgorebrush Member Posts: 2,743 ■■■■■■■□□□
    Quad port NIC's?

    /strokes beard.
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