And yes, that is a 3560 POE switch.
I am only missing a p/s for the ASA. If it doesn't work when the P/S get's here I'll probably cry a bit.
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Showing posts with label CCNA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CCNA. Show all posts
Friday, February 7, 2014
Lot's o' goodies. CCNA security, voice, and wireless racks coming soon...
Picked up all of this from one lot for an insane price... (plus a 2970, 3 2950g's, and a couple Cisco business class routers and switches.)
And yes, that is a 3560 POE switch.
I am only missing a p/s for the ASA. If it doesn't work when the P/S get's here I'll probably cry a bit.
And yes, that is a 3560 POE switch.
I am only missing a p/s for the ASA. If it doesn't work when the P/S get's here I'll probably cry a bit.
Friday, January 10, 2014
CCNA Voice lab beginning
To facilitate a few other possible projects in the future, I'm beginning the build of a CCNA Voice lab.
I'll be looking for a few more phones, and and modules, and will eventually set up a SIP based phone service here, possibly, just to say that I did it, maybe more, we'll see.
I'll be looking for a few more phones, and and modules, and will eventually set up a SIP based phone service here, possibly, just to say that I did it, maybe more, we'll see.
Ohh, and the T3600 is up and running, if a bit hampered by some Raid controller card issues on a single 64gb SSD for now.
These are the same workstations we use at work, but believe it or not, at 8gb of system ram in my home system, I have twice as much as my workstation at work.
Our video cards, at work, on the other hand, are no slouches. We have two W7000, 4GB cards in each station. If you're asking why $1300 worth of Video cards, and only 4gb of system ram in a workstation that does no CAD/CAM, but runs 4-5 Java-heavy Element Management systems, you'd be asking the same question I do every day. I think I've finally goaded them into getting us 8-12gb loaded soon.
Such is the life of being a technical employee under decidedly, non-technical managers. I had my shot to become one of them, but chose to stay on the Engineering track. I'll revisit management again someday, but I've still got a ton of training and study to do before I'd feel qualified to manage another engineer.
Monday, January 6, 2014
CCP aka Cisco Configuration Professional
I've had a real dearth of posts lately, due to both inherent craziness at work, and a couple other projects that I'm working on.
The HomeLab business was dry for a few months, then picked up with a vengeance right at Christmas. I sold 7 configured Labs over a two week period, ending the very last day of the year. Now that everything is shipped, I can get back to the projects I've been working on.
One of the projects will be... sometimes I forget the title of the Blog, "CCNP or Bust". It probably seems to the outsider, that it's more Bust than CCNP, but because of the limited use of Cisco gear at my day/night job, having the CCNP is less of a driving force. Becoming a well rounded network engineer, is more of a concern with the MEF-CECP a much more desired certification where I work.
That said, I'll be back focusing on the CCNP between February and the end of March, with a desired completion date of March 27th. There is a good reason for this, so the posts will probably be coming in a flurry between the beginning of February and that date.
I likely will be trying to take Switch around the end of Feb. So as the kids say... "It's on like Donkey Kong"
I have a few toys coming as well. I have a Dell Precision workstation, a T3600, identical to the workstations we have at work arriving today. Only thing it's missing are the dual W7000 Video cards that they (for whatever reason) Spec'ed our systems with. It's a bit of an example of what it's like to work at a company in which most of the people, apparently, even our IT department, don't really have a good grasp on what we do. $1300 for dual 4GB video cards, but only 4Gb of system ram. One can only chuckle. I picked up the entire workstation, with 8GB of system ram, for likely, less than my company paid for ONE of the video cards in my workstation at work. I estimate we probably overspent around $30,000 on our workstations.
I picked this up to run ESXi vm's for various reasons, including the evaluation version of Cisco Unified Connection manager, eventually.
I also have two more Juniper SRX210's on the way to facilitate a focus on the JNCIA-ENT after the CCNP is finished. At some point, I'd like to get out of NOC work, and into a 9-5, Monday through Friday position. I don't mind dealing with the occasional emergency network situation, but after nearly 8 years of constant Fiber cut/Network outage management, it's beginning to wear on me.
That all said I do have a subject here, and it aligns with one of my other projects, to be named later...
Cisco Configuration Pro. Something one will have to have some experience with for some of the new CCNA tests, and likely the CCNP when a likely revamp of those come.
and that's pretty much it
The HomeLab business was dry for a few months, then picked up with a vengeance right at Christmas. I sold 7 configured Labs over a two week period, ending the very last day of the year. Now that everything is shipped, I can get back to the projects I've been working on.
One of the projects will be... sometimes I forget the title of the Blog, "CCNP or Bust". It probably seems to the outsider, that it's more Bust than CCNP, but because of the limited use of Cisco gear at my day/night job, having the CCNP is less of a driving force. Becoming a well rounded network engineer, is more of a concern with the MEF-CECP a much more desired certification where I work.
That said, I'll be back focusing on the CCNP between February and the end of March, with a desired completion date of March 27th. There is a good reason for this, so the posts will probably be coming in a flurry between the beginning of February and that date.
I likely will be trying to take Switch around the end of Feb. So as the kids say... "It's on like Donkey Kong"
I have a few toys coming as well. I have a Dell Precision workstation, a T3600, identical to the workstations we have at work arriving today. Only thing it's missing are the dual W7000 Video cards that they (for whatever reason) Spec'ed our systems with. It's a bit of an example of what it's like to work at a company in which most of the people, apparently, even our IT department, don't really have a good grasp on what we do. $1300 for dual 4GB video cards, but only 4Gb of system ram. One can only chuckle. I picked up the entire workstation, with 8GB of system ram, for likely, less than my company paid for ONE of the video cards in my workstation at work. I estimate we probably overspent around $30,000 on our workstations.
I picked this up to run ESXi vm's for various reasons, including the evaluation version of Cisco Unified Connection manager, eventually.
I also have two more Juniper SRX210's on the way to facilitate a focus on the JNCIA-ENT after the CCNP is finished. At some point, I'd like to get out of NOC work, and into a 9-5, Monday through Friday position. I don't mind dealing with the occasional emergency network situation, but after nearly 8 years of constant Fiber cut/Network outage management, it's beginning to wear on me.
That all said I do have a subject here, and it aligns with one of my other projects, to be named later...
Cisco Configuration Pro. Something one will have to have some experience with for some of the new CCNA tests, and likely the CCNP when a likely revamp of those come.
I've set it up seriously for the first time. I have an 1841 discovered and now a 3560.
There are a few simple configurations you will need to get a node discovered.
- interface configured on the network you have your PC running CCP on.
- username, privilege, and secret password for the device.
- VTY configured with priviledge, local login, and transport inputs set
and that's pretty much it
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Routerz...
a couple 1841's trickled in.
Cleaning physically and logically.
Router#copy flash:c1841-adventerprisek9-mz.124-24.T1.bin tftp
Address or name of remote host []? 192.168.1.99
Destination filename [c1841-adventerprisek9-mz.124-24.T1.bin]?
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
40494348 bytes copied in 156.916 secs (258064 bytes/sec)
Cleaning physically and logically.
Router#copy flash:c1841-adventerprisek9-mz.124-24.T1.bin tftp
Address or name of remote host []? 192.168.1.99
Destination filename [c1841-adventerprisek9-mz.124-24.T1.bin]?
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
40494348 bytes copied in 156.916 secs (258064 bytes/sec)
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Beginning of the year and back to the grindstone...
Now that I've got that other big certificate out of the way, (BBA Management, Mcoy School of Business, Texas State) and have taken four short months to stare at the wall and figure out where to go next, I'm ready to dive back into the Cisco Cert path.
I worked crazy hours this last pay period to try to get us as caught up financially from my 3 months of short-term disability, and a full racing season. Adios Pig Pen, you were a blast last year. Pig Pen is the Black, 4 wheeled, money pit in the Pics at the left.
I'm setting the end of June as a finish date for the CCNP, starting semi-from scratch. I've already got a remotely accessible(2509 access server) 5 router, 3 switch, all purchased off of ebay, and upgraded where needed to run the IOS needed. I actually was pretty thrifty and have built the lab for right around $1k, and have a few routers not in the lab(3640, and a 2610)
As it sits, I have:
2 x 2620xm with 256mb ram, and 48mb flash., 1 WIC1-T, 1 WIC-1DSU-T1
1x 2621xm with 128mb ram, and 32mb flash
2x 2650 with 128mb ram and 32mb flash, 1 with 1 WIC1-T, 1 WIC-1DSU-T1, 1 with NM8-AS(frame relay switch)
3x 2950 catalyst switches
1 2509 with an Ethernet tranceiver for network access server duties.
I'm thinking of making some videos for youtube on how I assembled all of this as there isn't a whole lot of info on how to get this type of home lab up and running. You can see a pic of the current state of the rack in the slideshow at left.
To those that haven't run across it, and don't have access to Visio, I've found the Online Software as a Service Giffy, that does a great job with network representations. I'll be making one of each of the lab topologies that are used in the CBT Nuggets CCNP Videos. So far I have the EIGRP basic configuration, and the first of the Advanced EIGRP config done, with Frame relay setup.
I'll also be posting the configs of all my routers in the topologies when the lab is completed, so anyone can see how I did it. Just found out today there is a more modern way to set up the Frame relay router/switch using the connect command instead of Frame relay route, so I wiped all the devices and started over.
that's about where I'm at now. I watched the vids quite a while ago and wrote everything down on paper and am now transcribing them as I hit each section in the Cisco Press book.
Tips of the Day:
Putty Connection manager: When you are going to wipe configs it's awesome to be able to do it on all routers with one command entry. That and just having all the routers up in tabs makes it pretty convenient.
Gliffy: keeps what you have in the lab in your head if you are using a live setup.(which I highly recommend)
The Cisco Learning Network: The discussion groups are worth their weight in gold, and being free, don't empty your pocket of any.
Books by Todd Lammle: He just has a knack for ordering things in a book in the way that ends up most useful for learning. I just picked up his CCNA IOS Command Survival guide to remember how to change confreg on a new router I picked up(one of the reasons to use a live lab), and am already finding other uses for it.
Good luck to all, and I hope this is useful to someone.
I worked crazy hours this last pay period to try to get us as caught up financially from my 3 months of short-term disability, and a full racing season. Adios Pig Pen, you were a blast last year. Pig Pen is the Black, 4 wheeled, money pit in the Pics at the left.
I'm setting the end of June as a finish date for the CCNP, starting semi-from scratch. I've already got a remotely accessible(2509 access server) 5 router, 3 switch, all purchased off of ebay, and upgraded where needed to run the IOS needed. I actually was pretty thrifty and have built the lab for right around $1k, and have a few routers not in the lab(3640, and a 2610)
As it sits, I have:
2 x 2620xm with 256mb ram, and 48mb flash., 1 WIC1-T, 1 WIC-1DSU-T1
1x 2621xm with 128mb ram, and 32mb flash
2x 2650 with 128mb ram and 32mb flash, 1 with 1 WIC1-T, 1 WIC-1DSU-T1, 1 with NM8-AS(frame relay switch)
3x 2950 catalyst switches
1 2509 with an Ethernet tranceiver for network access server duties.
I'm thinking of making some videos for youtube on how I assembled all of this as there isn't a whole lot of info on how to get this type of home lab up and running. You can see a pic of the current state of the rack in the slideshow at left.
To those that haven't run across it, and don't have access to Visio, I've found the Online Software as a Service Giffy, that does a great job with network representations. I'll be making one of each of the lab topologies that are used in the CBT Nuggets CCNP Videos. So far I have the EIGRP basic configuration, and the first of the Advanced EIGRP config done, with Frame relay setup.
I'll also be posting the configs of all my routers in the topologies when the lab is completed, so anyone can see how I did it. Just found out today there is a more modern way to set up the Frame relay router/switch using the connect command instead of Frame relay route, so I wiped all the devices and started over.
that's about where I'm at now. I watched the vids quite a while ago and wrote everything down on paper and am now transcribing them as I hit each section in the Cisco Press book.
Tips of the Day:
Putty Connection manager: When you are going to wipe configs it's awesome to be able to do it on all routers with one command entry. That and just having all the routers up in tabs makes it pretty convenient.
Gliffy: keeps what you have in the lab in your head if you are using a live setup.(which I highly recommend)
The Cisco Learning Network: The discussion groups are worth their weight in gold, and being free, don't empty your pocket of any.
Books by Todd Lammle: He just has a knack for ordering things in a book in the way that ends up most useful for learning. I just picked up his CCNA IOS Command Survival guide to remember how to change confreg on a new router I picked up(one of the reasons to use a live lab), and am already finding other uses for it.
Good luck to all, and I hope this is useful to someone.
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