Your first piece of cisco equipment

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.

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rwwest7

Mine was a 2610XM from T-Net. I was like a kid on christmas morning!

notgoing2fail

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!!

mikej412

Cisco 2503 Router (AUI Ethernet port, ISDN, 2 Serial).

Paul Boz

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-rated

hexem

1721 on ebay and just recently got me a C2950-24.

thehourman

I got mine on Ebay 3 weeks ago, I think. Lots of 3 2620 routers.

notgoing2fail

hexem wrote: »

1721 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.

How do you like the 2620? I was thinking about picking up 1 or 2 of those....

jovan88

2900xl switch, still under my bed

thehourman

I 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.

peanutnoggin

A buddy of mine gave me a 2924 switch about 2 or 3 years ago.

Deathgomper

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.

jamesleecoleman

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.

binargs

i just bought 2 2510 routers off ebay for 30 bucks shipped.

dynamik

I went all out and got a pair of 2501s...

tazdevil

Cisco 831 SoHo Router, was my 1st, then from there much more...

notgoing2fail

dynamik wrote: »

I went all out and got a pair of 2501s...

Hey no shame! I have one of those! I got my CCNA because of the 2500 series....

DevilWAH

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

irishpunk

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

Take care,
Sean

CiskHo

They landed their hook in me with the FastHub400. Now I can't stop buying their gear... LOL

ColbyG

I think my first lab piece was a 2611 or 2514.

Turgon

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

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.

SysAdmin4066

notgoing2fail 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 Corps

Deathgomper

irishpunk wrote: »

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!!