Your first piece of cisco equipment
johnwest43
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Do you remember your first piece of cisco equipment? How long ago was it? What was it a router,switch,firewall?
Mine was a pix 501 with the 10 user licence.
Mine was a pix 501 with the 10 user licence.
CCNP: ROUTE B][COLOR=#ff0000]x[/COLOR][/B , SWITCH B][COLOR=#ff0000]x[/COLOR][/B, TSHOOT [X ] Completed on 2/18/2014
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notgoing2fail Member Posts: 1,138As a matter of fact I do. It was two routers. 2501 and 2507.
I was young and was hired to be a programmer. But was intrigued by Cisco. My boss was one strict mean boss. He was a true drill sergeant. For some reason he liked me, and allowed me to play with spare Cisco routers they had laying around. I eventually bought it from them.
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Paul Boz Member Posts: 2,620 ■■■■■■■■□□I got a 2500 series router and some 2950XM switches with 50% dead ports. It was probably the most ghetto, pathetic CCNA lab ever put together. The face plates were held on with duct tape. I also unplugged the fans to make them quiet. They still run fine so I think the integrated cooling is over-ratedCCNP | CCIP | CCDP | CCNA, CCDA
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thehourman Member Posts: 723I got mine on Ebay 3 weeks ago, I think. Lots of 3 2620 routers.Studying:
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notgoing2fail Member Posts: 1,1381721 on ebay and just recently got me a C2950-24.
Congrats! I own a 1720 myself....I love these little buggers.....thehourman wrote: »I got mine on Ebay 3 weeks ago, I think. Lots of 3 2620 routers.
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thehourman Member Posts: 723I did power them on and used some commands that I learned for switches. Since I have not gone to routers command yet, so I can't answer your question 100%, but so far so good.
I am planning to skip the wireless chapter since I already know this stuff, but for the sake of knowledge I will read the thing again.Studying:
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peanutnoggin Member Posts: 1,096 ■■■□□□□□□□A buddy of mine gave me a 2924 switch about 2 or 3 years ago.We cannot have a superior democracy with an inferior education system!
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Deathgomper Member Posts: 356 ■■■□□□□□□□About a year ago I got a single 2950 switch, without any cisco experience it took me some googling just to figure out how to do a password reset.......memories.
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jamesleecoleman Member Posts: 1,899 ■■■■■□□□□□I think it was a 25XX because I kept buying cisco stuff everytime that I could. On every shipment at work we weren't really sure of exactly what we got.Booya!!
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tazdevil Member Posts: 55 ■■□□□□□□□□Cisco 831 SoHo Router, was my 1st, then from there much more...ICND1 - Passed March 19/2010
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notgoing2fail Member Posts: 1,138I went all out and got a pair of 2501s...
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DevilWAH Member Posts: 2,997 ■■■■■■■■□□a 2610 router (found in an old cupboard and now mine!!!)
in fact a lot of my lab is equipment left laying around its when you find a 3750G switch left unused you start to smile- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
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irishpunk Member Posts: 47 ■■□□□□□□□□The all mighty all powerful 2950 it was awesome !!!! Of course, I also remember the embarrassment of not knowing how to do a password recovery as well
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Turgon Banned Posts: 6,308 ■■■■■■■■■□johnwest43 wrote: »Do you remember your first piece of cisco equipment? How long ago was it? What was it a router,switch,firewall?
Mine was a pix 501 with the 10 user licence.
In 1999 I rescued a 2501 from a box in the stores in my current place of employment. We were a 3Com shop using Netbuilder II and leased lines. I cant tell you what a find this was. My boss said I could keep it and I still have it in my lab. It was licenced for IPX. Back then these things were 400 dollars on ebay. -
bertieb Member Posts: 1,031 ■■■■■■□□□□1999, a Cisco 1005 that we used to stick on the end of leased lines. I still have it in the garage for sentimental reasons...awwwwwww.The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they are genuine - Abraham Lincoln
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SysAdmin4066 Member Posts: 443notgoing2fail wrote: »As a matter of fact I do. It was two routers. 2501 and 2507.
I was young and was hired to be a programmer. But was intrigued by Cisco. My boss was one strict mean boss. He was a true drill sergeant. For some reason he liked me, and allowed me to play with spare Cisco routers they had laying around. I eventually bought it from them.
Later I found out he was an ex marine. Explains everything!!
No such thing as an ex Marine.
Mine was in 2000, a 2500 routers, I think it was a 2501. I was going through com school in the Marine CorpsIn Progress: CCIE R&S Written Scheduled July 17th (Tentative)
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Deathgomper Member Posts: 356 ■■■□□□□□□□The all mighty all powerful 2950 it was awesome !!!!
My next purchase was 2 - 2505 routers, only one of em had an OS. Getting TFTP to work from one to another was my first Cisco milestone!!