Life around here has been pretty busy recently. Jessi just finished her student teaching, my largest consulting client has been having router hardware issues, I’ve been preparing my cisco lab, working on spring cleaning the entire house, and thats just the top 4 things I can think of right now.
I realized today that some of my topology plans for my lab will not work. The wic-2t cards I have are incompatable with the nm-1e2w or nm-2e2w cards that I have. So, I either need to purchase nm-1fe2w cards, or some variant of them. Or I can put them in my 2620s and throw the wic-1dsu-t1 cards in my 3600 series. Which is not at all what I wanted to do, but I may be able to make that work instead of spending more money on more cards.
I am still making some decesions on the overall topology of my lab, and obviously have some concerns on what materials I will be able to cover with it. I was finally able to locate an MPLS enabled IOS for the 3620, and with a $8 memory upgrade for one of them, I will have it working on both. This made me happy.
On the downside, one of the 3640s I purchased arrived with a demolished face plate. The seller had packaged the router poorly, and provided little to no padding along with way too small of a box. He also refused to issue a partial refund, paypal granted me a full refund, but also required that I return the router. (obviously) Considering I had already invested in a memory upgrade for this guy… I guess I’ll take the loss on it and leave him some negative feedback for being a jerk. (His correspondence via email really was quite rude)
Anyway, hopefully next week I’ll be able to share some diagrams with you on what I have setup along with some new pictures of the lab.
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I've bought plenty of routers and other devices, the faceplates get sacrified quite often. Look at the seller if they are 100% and look like an Ebay business then more often than not, they will ship well. When I sell I've only had one faceplate get damaged and I just replaced it. Myself I rack mount my gear so I can see the interfaces and not the faceplates so it does not bother me too much.
Nice rack.
Darby