SWITCH hardware requirements for lab

wbosher

Hi guys, sorry if this has already been answered but I searched for ages and could find an answer.

I have a 3550, 3524XL and a 2950 switch and was wondering if this will be enough to get me through. I understand that I won't be able to do the PVLANs but will this be enough to do everything else?

Thanks in advance.

SubnetZero

wbosher wrote: »

Hi guys, sorry if this has already been answered but I searched for ages and could find an answer.

I have a 3550, 3524XL and a 2950 switch and was wondering if this will be enough to get me through. I understand that I won't be able to do the PVLANs but will this be enough to do everything else?

Thanks in advance.

This should be fine you just wont be able to MST or PVLAN's and the 3524XL is pure junk! You could always rent a rack as well and OR use the Boson CCNP simulator.

Good luck!

CiscoCerts

SubnetZero wrote: »

This should be fine you just wont be able to MST

This is incorrect, MST will run on 2950 & 3550. You'd need 3560 for private-vlans as you already know.

Check for yourself here:
Cisco.com Command Lookup Tool

4_lom

I would suggest getting one more 3550 EMI, and possibly a 2950. Not sure which IOS is on the 3524. I have 2 3550 EMI's, two 2950's, and a 3548xl. The only reason I have the 3548 is because the seller on Ebay mixed up my 3550 with someone else's 3548 when shipping the switches. He sent me a 3550 and told me to just keep the 3548. Pretty awesome.

wbosher

I used the 2950 and the 3524 for CCNA and found that the 3924 could do most things that the 2950 could do as far as the CCNA requirements went. I could probably get my hands on another 2950, but was wondering if I could get away with one L3 switch or if I need to get another one.

4_lom

You need at least two layer 3 switches. You could always get an SMI model and just do a IOS upgrade.

SubnetZero

CiscoCerts wrote: »

This is incorrect, MST will run on 2950 & 3550. You'd need 3560 for private-vlans as you already know.

Check for yourself here:
Cisco.com Command Lookup Tool

Yes my mistake...

I remember that the 3550 does indeed support MST, just not PVLAN's.

Thanks for the correction

wbosher

Just scored another 3550 that my work were about to throw away! :D:D That should be enough.

alxx

Don't forget Community Lab - Packet Life for the pvlans
and
Free CCNA Workbook » The Stub Lab provided by Free CCNA Workbook for everything except pvlans

wbosher

Just upgraded IOS to c3550-ipservicesk9-mz.122-44.SE6.bin, gonna have some fun now.