All language subtitles for 36 - Cisco Certification - Building a CCNA Lab-eng

>> So your arm is kind of tingling,
so you decide to go to the doctor's,

and you sit down with the doctor
and explain, "Yeah, my right arm,

it's just kind of tingles weird sometimes."

And he's like, "Oh, well, afraid that's
'tingle-it is'; we're going to have to go in

and do, I mean, we've got to remove the
dumaflache that's causing all of this."

And you're like, "Wow, I didn't
realize it was so serious.

So, wow, so this is like surgery."

And he's like, "Oh yeah, oh yeah.

But it's outpatient, don't worry."

And you're like, "Well, how many
times have you done this surgery?"

He's like, "Well, actually, I haven't, but
I know I totally can because I saw a video

on it, and the explanation was great.

I totally get it and I'm ready to go.

So, how about you?"

[Laugh] Ehh!

I was like, "How about 'no'
on that whole situation?"

But, you get the point, right?

When you're studying for Cisco, going
through the CBT Nugget series is huge.

You now have the information
that you need to be successful

at CCNA, as well as a career in Cisco.

But, until you actually do
it, there's always going to be

that little gap between knowing it and doing it.

So let me hit this first question head-on.

Why build a lab?

Doesn't GNS3 work just fine?

GNS3 being the Cisco emulator, runs the real
iOS, so you can type in all the commands.

It is a phenomenal product, GNS3.

We even have a full series on it at
CBT Nuggets because it's that popular.

But I've been where you are.

I've been at the point where, you
know, "I'm just getting into CCNA.

I haven't really seen that much Cisco equipment.

I haven't been in that many networks
before, to where I've seen it all,

done it all, kind feel behind it."

And if I were given an emulator, I
know I would have been just like, eh,

just kind of drag some routers and like, eh.

Like, it just wouldn't have been real to me.

I guess the best way I can
explain it just popped in my head.

Have you ever played paintball before?

You know, where you're running
around and you shoot the guns,

and you get hit with the paintballs.

Well, paintball, it's like of
like, you don't want to get hit,

because it's going to leave a mark.

I mean, you're like diving behind rocks
because it you get shot, it really hurts.

Well, compare that to laser tag.

Have you ever done paintball
and then you go do laser tag?

Lame! You just wear this vest and people
like, point these little laser guns at you.

It's like, "Hello, I..."

There's no fear.

You're not running, you're just like,
"Oh, you hit me for the 80th time,

oh well," you know, it's all funny.

So that's kind of like GNS3,
at least when you start off.

I'm not talking for once you've had
a lot of experience and just want

to start using this as kind of a virtual lab.

But when you start off, it's kind of
like laser tag, where it's like, eh,

it's just kind of frilly, oh well.

So, build a lab.

Just trust me on this.

I could go on but I don't want to
bore you with all of my reasons why.

Build a lab.

So, next recommendation.

Cisco shopper, what's my budget?

Once you get into building
a lab, it is addictive.

I mean, to where I've actually had students
that, I'm like, "Hey, go build a lab."

And they come back and they show me
pictures of, I mean, literally thousands

of dollars they spent, building
this enterprise-size network.

I'm like, "Oh, my word.

No, that's not what I meant."

I would say the budget for a CCNA lab, you
know, if you're really, really savvy, 50 bucks.

Maybe if you just want to get some stuff quick,

and maybe you want some nicer
stuff, you know, around 200 dollars.

I don't think you should go much more than that,
because I would say you're probably over-buying.

Or if you do, maybe you're just doing it for
fun to kind of build a collection of equipment.

So, know your budget, because it is addictive.

Because you'll find some great
deals on eBay for this equipment.

So now let me give you my
equipment recommendations.

Now, keep in mind, when I
put this list together,

I did so with budget as my primary concern.

So, this is being as cost-conscious as I can.

My number one recommendation, and it has been
for, I would say, probably five, six years,

is this little Cisco 871W router.

Now, first off, let me also mention
I kind of have my single router.

This is the ultimate budget
department, to where I'm like,

"If all you can afford is one
router, grab one of these guys.

Just grab one from eBay to use."

Now, over on the right hand side I say, "Okay,
well if we've got a little larger budget,

let me explain how to build
a min-lab for the CCNA."

So, if you can only buy one router,
I would say go for the Cisco 871.

The reason why I love this router
is, number one, it's small.

I know a lot of you will be
running this in your house.

Getting one of these routers is great, but
you've got the fan noise, it's going to go errr,

and you're going to be anxious to turn
that thing off as fast as you can.

This is small, it's very, it's completely
silent, and it has the full iOS.

It actually has a built in switch,
so you can learn a little bit

about VLANs, a little bit about switching.

Because you can do VLANs on this guy.

You even have, if you go with the,
there's an 871 and there's an 871W.

W is the wireless version.

So if you want to learn a little bit about
doing Wi-Fi, even though the configuration

of Wi-Fi is not part of the
CCNA, you can just by doing this.

So I look at this guy and I'm like,
"Man, what a great little all-in-one box,

to where I can do NAT, I can do my Access
lists, I can do VLANs, I can do, you know,

I think it's a little four-port switch
they have in there, I can do wireless."

It's everything, I love it.

So, next one down, if that
one's not an option, go for --

and by the way, this I would probably say is
probably going tbo be the most expensive one

out of the list.

I haven't even checked prices.

Check eay, please, maybe $50, 40?

Not crazy expensive, just more than these.

I mean, these I'm guessing, you
can grab for 20 bucks or so.

Cisco 1721, again, my main focus with
this guy is it's small and it's quiet.

My goal for you, when you build this home lab,

it that you route your internet
connection over it.

And if you get one of these real beefy routers,

these are the full rack-mount routers right
here, you always have the fan, "zzzzzz,"

in the background, and you're going to be
like, "Ah, I'm ready to turn that thing off."

And that, because I know, I've run
a lab in my house for a long time.

So, this one is completely silent.

You will have to, the warning I'll give you
is, it only comes with one fast Ethernet card.

So you'll have to buy, they actually make a,

I think it's WIC-1ENET, I
think is the model number.

So that'll add the second Ethernet interface.

But all of these are great, and the
extra benefit of these is it's modular.

This one, the one shortcoming that I will say,

on the 871 is it does not have
serial ports, and you can't add them.

It's not meant for serial connections,
whereas when you get over here,

this guy does support serial interfaces,
so you can do your frame relay testing.

You can do point-to-point LAN links,
all of those kind of things can be done.

And then of course, down
at the bottom, 2611, 2621.

The reason I chose those model numbers is, 11
is 10-megabit per second, dual Ethernet ports.

This one is 100-megabit per
second and dual Ethernet ports.

Again, the dual Ethernet,
that's these guys -- one, two --

are used to route your internet connection.

One outside interface, and one inside interface.

So if you only can get one
router, those are the ones to get.

Now, on the right-hand side,
I've got the mini-lab.

If I were putting this together,
like a fast food order, I would say,

"Grab two of these, and two
of these right there."

That's your mini-lab.

This guy down at the bottom, the 3550, is just
the most amazing switch because it's dropped

in price significantly, it's 100
megabits per second, which is why,

everything is going gigabit,
and everybody's like, "Oh,

we don't' want a hundred meg anymore."

So, you can get these pretty cheap.

The big thing about it is
it's a layer three switch.

So this one will take you to the CCNA and
beyond, as you start getting into the CCNP,

layer three switching, and
doing a lot of stuff there.

So, if you can grab one of those,
then replace one of these with it.

So, grab one of these and one of these.

If you can, you know, if budget's an
option, grab just two of these instead.

They also have Power over Ethernet models,
where you can power IP phones if you want to get

into Voice Over IP, or power
wireless access points.

By getting two of these, then you can start
doing a lot of the redundancy protocols,

like HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, and setting
it up to where you've got kind

of a layer three switched environment.

I'm getting into CCNP; I'm not going to do that.

Bu, okay, so budget conscious,
two of these, two of these.

Then you've got your serial interfaces, and
I've kind of got the bonus equipment down here.

The beauty of using two of these is they've
got hundred meg ports, you can do your VLANs,

you can do your trunc-ing, all of that
happening between those two switches.

And, these have 100-meg Ethernet ports.

You want to grab at least one 2621,
because these are 10-megabit per second.

That'll let you set up a router on a
stick, so you can route between VLANs.

You also want to grab a console cable.

Most of these, if you get them
online, will come with one.

Watch out, people on eBay
are ferocious and they'll try

and sell you a console cable
for like 20 bucks, and don't.

Just say, you know, when you
but one of these ask the seller,

a lot of times they'll be businesses,
"Hey, can you throw a console cable in?"

Most of the time they'll
throw in a couple for you.

So, console cable.

Grab Ethernet cables.

Best place to go for Ethernet cables,

I don't know if I've shown this
to you yet, is Monoprice...

Monoprice.com.

Now, I'm saying the best.

I'm sure there's other places to get
them, but this place just has really,

really good priced networking and they're
in California, which is right next to me.

So they do overnight shipping for nothing.

But if you go to like Fry's Electronics or
Best Buy to get, you know, scroll down here to,

a three-foot cable, they're going to charge
you seven bucks for the package and all.

Come on; get it for a dollar.

So, Monoprice is a great place for that.

Oh, by the way, Monoprice also sells, let me
see if I can find it, back up, Cisco Serial.

Great, they have Cisco...

uh, that's not what I was looking for.

Um, oh, they're like serial
ATA, eh...it's on there.

Somewhere.

It's on there; trust me.

They actually sell Cisco Serial
Cables there that you can use.

DB60, I believe, is the model
that you're looking for.

60-pin serial cables that you can use
for back to back serial connections

between your two routers, that's where
you can emulate your frame relay,

or your point-to-point LAN link, and all that.

Last thing I'll say is a lab guide.

Look around, just see if people
have created any kind of lab guide,

and you might follow their
equipment recommendations.

The reason I say this is because
you can set up a lot in your house.

You can route your internet
connections, use Access lists, and so on.

But after so long, you kind of run out of
ideas, and then these things just sit on a shelf

and every now and then you're
like, "Oh, I've got to study."

And you power down, and you change
a host name, set the enable secret,

and you're like, "Uh, now what do I do?"

So, having a lab guide is great,
because it gives you objectives.

They're like, "Hey, accomplish
this, go after that."

Not a step by step, I don't like the
step, like "Type this, type this."

You don't learn anything that way.

But just something to give you
missions and goals to accomplish.

I actually created a series, part of
CBT Nuggets, and got this subscription,

you might check it out, called
CCNA for the Real World.

I created a whole bunch of labs in
there that you might want to try out

and use yourself, in there as well.

My mind is always going to,
"What else can I do?"

I wonder if I can create like a lab
guide that I give you, I don't know.

We'll see.

But check out CCNA for the Real World.

I've got some labs in there for you to try out.

The last thing I want to cover
is a question I get all the time.

People start going on eBay and shopping
for equipment, and they say, "Okay.

I see on there some people
are selling a CCNA lab kit,

where they give me all the
routers and the switches together."

Matter of fact, I just went to eBay and just
typed in CCNA lab real quick, just to see,

and this is what I'm talking about.

They'll ship you like three routers,
three switches, for $600, or in this case,

three routers, three switches for $400.

So, you kind of go down this list and you
start seeing all these different things.

"So, should I buy one of these CCNA lab kits,

or should just buy the routers
you recommended individually?"

Well, it all goes back to cost.

Cost versus hassle.

You're going to get it a lot cheaper
if you buy the devices individually.

What the CCNA lab kit people do, it's just
people that go out and buy all the things.

They assemble it, take a nice
pretty picture, they say,

"Buy it right here, right now all together."

The benefit that you get from that is, number
one, you don't have the hassle of dealing

with all these different sellers and,
"Did I get my equipment on time?"

and all that kind of stuff.

You've got one place to go back to.

Second, sometimes you can get a pretty sweet
deal, where they're saying, "Okay, well,

I'll include a lab guide and all the
equipment that you need for that lab."

So again, sets you up for a little more success,

but you're going to pay more
for that kind of thing.

If it were me, I would go out
and buy the devices individually.

Because I'm a cheapskate.

I like getting the best deal,
when I'm like "Sweet!

A switch for $20.

Buy it now!"

It give me that warm fuzzy satisfaction,
like I just got a great deal.

So, that being said, that's
my advice on those two things.

I hope this has been informative for you,
and I'd like to thank you for viewing.