Post Your Lab (PICS)

Hey Everyone,
I couldn't find any other thread similar to this after searching for a while, so I wanted to get one going. It would be great if everyone could post pictures of their current home or work lab (Big or Small). Hopefully we can get the CCNP/CCIE folks to post in here as well.

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cmccul002

Netwurk wrote: »

Wow, Morris has a lot of gear (see mikej's link above)

Glad to see I'm not the only one who runs his lab out of his basement. Not that I would recommend it to all. We live on a hill in PA where even flash flood type rains stay out (knock on wood). Even so, I keep my "expendable" gear on the bottom of my rack and I try to keep it off and unplugged when not in use. When we go on vacation, it all gets shut down. Bad memories of Hurricane Agnes.

So far the kids, ages 9-27, haven't shown interest in the labs I've had through the years. They think I'm an uncool geek and the 21 year old calls me Bill Nye the Science Guy. At least they are all loyal Phillies/Eagles fans!

Philly fan = All that counts

Im just setting up my lab, so far i have 3 2950 switches, a 3640, a 2520 and a 2660. Still want to get 1 more router.

I would like to get a look at your setup

runssh

tim100 wrote: »

Definitely applicable to the CCNP. I like using the Adtran over a Cisco Router as a Frame Switch.

Thanks. Is there a pic of the back side?

runssh

tim100 wrote: »

No space to stand in the back. Had to take it from the side. Don't mind the dust...

Thanks for sharing!! I'll likely limit my lab to 9 devices. Wifey will kill me if I had that many.

runssh

It's getting there. Need to pick up the cat5 cables and a couple more WIC-1/2Ts off eBay.

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boostinbadger

What is that little fella right below the APC?

runssh

It's a Pix 501, which I've really yet to touch.

boostinbadger

Here is an updated pic of my lab.

3 x 1760s w/ 3 WIC A/S and 1 WIC 1B-U V2
3 x 2950 - One per 1760. Two trunked using Etherchannel
1 x 2610
1 x 2612
1 x 2620XM w/ 3 WIC A/S - SDM and Frame Switch
1 x 2509 - Access Server
1 x 2940 - Distribution Layer Switch in my ROAS config
3 x 2924 - One for each VLAN for ROAS config

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ashrafneo

Hi! I just bought an affordable lab for CCNA studies
I would really appreciate some feedback on my decision.

3X2503 Routers - 1 AUI, 2 Serial interfaces each
2X2924 XL switches - 24 10Mbit interfaces
1X2950 Switch - 24 10/100Mbit Interfaces
Console cable
2 tranceivers for the AUI ports
2 b2b dce-dte serial cables

I paid $220 plus tax cndn.

I had the 2950 from before so its just 3 routers and 2 switches + cables for that much, cheapest price I could find anywhere.
The routers are running 12.3(3a) IOS and the 2950 run 12.1 where as the 2924 runs 12.0

The pictures are at the web gallery below:
Picasa Web Albums - ashraf - CCNA Home Lab

Please tell me if there is something I am not covering.

labfrontsmall.jpg

jovan88

http://www.techexams.net/forums/ccnp/42406-ccnp-lab-buildup-pics.html

4 x 2621 XM

8 x WIC-1T

1 x 2900 XL

mens

Hi

I just thought I'd take some pics of my current lab and share with you guys. I recently moved it from home to my office. That's why it isn't cabled up or anything yet.

3x 3640's on top with misc NM's
1 2610 xm
The white box is stuff from work - an alarm concentrator (Ethernet/GPRS/PSTN)
1 2511
1 2522
1 1812 ISR
1 2503
1 2514
1 2610
1 1760
1 3560 48 PS <-- PoE

3 2950 EMI

Some of them are maxed, some not.

3x 7960G's and a 1721 plus some wic's didn't make it in the pic ^^

Btw I need a decent power supply for the 2511. It needs 40W 40-72VDC supply ;(

schpenxel

mens wrote: »

Hi

I just thought I'd take some pics of my current lab and share with you guys. I recently moved it from home to my office. That's why it isn't cabled up or anything yet.

3x 3640's on top with misc NM's
1 2610 xm
The white box is stuff from work - an alarm concentrator (Ethernet/GPRS/PSTN)
1 2511
1 2522
1 1812 ISR
1 2503
1 2514
1 2610
1 1760
1 3560 48 PS <-- PoE
3 2950 EMI

Some of them are maxed, some not.

3x 7960G's and a 1721 plus some wic's didn't make it in the pic ^^

Btw I need a decent power supply for the 2511. It needs 40W 40-72VDC supply ;(

What cert are you working on with that thing?

mens

schpenxel wrote: »

What cert are you working on with that thing?

nah, the certs will have to come when I have time. Just fooling around with stuff for the time being. Planning CCNP, CCVP and CCNA:sec in a time span of 3-5 years, so no rush.
And I have full time work non-cisco related and a 4 month old son, so I'm not getting my hopes up

TBellamy

Wow. Some nice home labs out there.

Mine is in a slow state of upgrade .... never seems to stop. It is set up to support both Cisco and Linux training and testing.

I added the console line switches and kvm switch just to make it easier to use when the configs are blank.

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schpenxel

TBellamy wrote: »

Wow. Some nice home labs out there.

yea really. i'm still trying to find the money to get some new switches. i bought my lab back in 2007 when i was originally going to do the ccna (wish i had done it now..stupid price increase on it sucks

).

some ppl look like they've spent many thousands on labs. i can't imagine needing half that for the CCNA.

Turgon

Some nice racks on here. You guys and your swanky 2600's

My routers are 2500's. These used to be over 700 dollars on ebay back in the day. I have 11 of those and 3 x 4000 series. Xyplex terminal server. ISDN BRI switch. 3 x Sun Netra's. 2 x Proliant G1's for Netware 5 and VMs.

Although the gear is aging, I find I can get a lot done on this. Anything else I use remote racks.

kurosaki00

whoa some guys here have some amazing racks :O
I'm amazed, eyes shinning and all

when I was @ the academy I just had 5x2500
2xCatalyst 1900 series

I wanted to take em home... but I couldnt

laidbackfreak

Turgon wrote: »

Although the gear is aging, I find I can get a lot done on this. Anything else I use remote racks.

I must get some pics of mine up....

in the mean time, how often do you find yourself using remote racks?

Are you renting ? if so how much ? I'm considering doing that for some labs I want to run through

ncsugrad2002

Well, I think I have enough switches now,

Really need to get some decent routers though.

2x2950's
2x3500XL's
2x1900's (bout time to trash those)
1x3550-12G (w00t)

and 3x2501 routers. looking to switch those out for some 2600 series ones in the next week or two. I had just set everything back up when I took the pic, so excuse the messy wiring. and I really need to get a rack for all of this..

pitviper

2x3550 PoE
3x2811 - VOICE
1x2821
1xIAD2431 (PSTN Cloud E-1 PRI/16x POTS)
1x1760 (PSTN Cloud, 2x T-1 PRIs)
1x3640 (Frame-Relay SW / Access Server)
4x26x1XM
Various Switches
10x IP Phones (Various)
2x Analog Phones

2xDell PowerEdge Servers - VMWare

hypnotoad

MOAR PLEASE!! That is an awesome rack, baby.

ncsugrad2002

hypnotoad wrote: »

MOAR PLEASE!! That is an awesome rack, baby.

Agreed. That's 10x the equipment my employer even has

pitviper

Thanks guys! I’ll have to take a picture of the work bench – I screwed a couple of 2x4s to the back and mounted some phones there to free up counter space – It’s looks pretty funny but it’s functional!

keenon

Heres my latest lab revision that has taken almost a year to get around to.

Rack overview on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Backbone routers on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Main Routers on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Switches1 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Switches2 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

mgeorge

Nice to see that this thread is still alive ^_^

I'm soon to renovate my rack and replace all my 2651XM's with 2811's and my 3550's with 3750's

ncsugrad2002

mgeorge wrote: »

Nice to see that this thread is still alive ^_^

I'm soon to renovate my rack and replace all my 2651XM's with 2811's and my 3550's with 3750's

damn, that's some serious money to do those upgrades

Deathgomper

Here's my ccent/ccna lab, with my custom throw together rack despite little $.

lab1.jpg

Jonk

Okay well here is my setup finally complete:

2x 2620XMs
2x 2950s
1x 2610
2x 2524s

I have the dell box there running for console, which has two NICs, one for that network and one for my network in which I just RDP into it to do whatever I need to do, or just to make it easier and not keep swapping console cables around telnet into whichever device.

If you are wondering whats going on towards the back, well that's my network closet. I have my home network running to there, where I have my cisco router provided by ISP with their cable modem. Also an older NEC phone system.

tazdevil

My Rack is stuffed.. need to locate a 42u or 36u, started with a 24u, but ran out of space thank-goodness for the top;

Cisco

5x3620
2x2650xm
1x2610
1x2621
1x2620
1x3640
4x2501
1x831
1xAP-1200
3x7940
1x7960
2x2950 (1x12,1x48 port)
2x3550 (1x24, 1x48 port)
2x2924XL
1x3524xl

I am working on my CCNA/CCENT, then my CCNA-V (UC), and then moving onto a procruve exam afterwards (Job Related).

Admitted, most of this gear has been sourced cheap, which is why I have so much.

Procurve
3x2524
2x3500yl

Using Magic Jack's (2) for my FXO ports in my voice lab, they have been working really good, used them for 2hr con-calls without issue...

stuffed fulla goodness!

how do you find procurve stuff in relation to cisco, is cli similar at all?

tazdevil

It's got both web and cli, I find it simalar to Cisco, have not done too much with it. The 2524 are layer 2 units, while the 3500yl's are will do Layer 3, like the Cisco 3550's.

I have not messed around too much with them, powered them up, tested, factory reset them, and got them ready for lab use.

I am more focused on my CCNA currently, as there appears to be more market value and the ProCurve currently. We will have to wait and see what happens over the next while, while 3com and HP get things sorted out...