Which of these items would be useful in a home CCENT/CCNA lab?

PPelfrey

I'm an experienced IT guy, but a neophyte when it comes to network hardware.

Friend of mine who reclaims/recycles IT gear from businesses for a living sent me a list of items I can get fairly cheap. This is what he has. Which items are of real use/limited use/no use for my purposes?

Cisco Catalyst 2900 XL 12 Port Switch, WS-C2912-XL-EN
Cisco Catalyst 2900 XL 12 Port Switch, WS-C2912-XL-EN

** Cisco Catalyst Long Reach WS-C2950ST-8-LR?E Switch**
Have this on hold

WS-C3548-XL-EN Cisco 3548-XL-EN 48-Port 10/100 Switch

Cisco Catalyst 4000 Series WS-C4006, WS-X4013 Sup II
Cisco Catalyst 2900 WS-C2916M-XL 2 X WS X2914-XL-V
Cisco Catalyst 4006 Supervisor Engine II W/2 Gigabit Ethernet Uplinks, 64MB DRAM (WS-X4013)
Cisco Systems 1600 Series 1605R Router WIC 1DSU T1
Cisco 800 827-4V ADSL Voice Router

Most of it will be dirt cheap, except the C2950ST, which will be around $75.

Opinions?

kalebksp

How dirt cheap? 827 might be okay to play around with and you could use a 2900XL to use as a fourth switch. I wouldn't pay more than a few dollars for either.

The rest of that stuff is junk. 2950s are good lab switches but that particular model has LRE ports, which aren't the same as regular RJ45 and you could get something a little more standard off ebay for a similar price.