2620 or 2621 for CCNP ?

Depends on if you want to just play over ethernet or setup back-to-back serial connections (ie with WIC-1Ts and the DCE-DTE cabling, or back-to-back WIC-1DSU-T1s) to practice your dynamic routing setups. You should probably have at least one serial interface to be familure with it though. Ethernet gets to be a bit easier for doing more though, and you can also do things like testing IP FW easier.

I'd look for two 2621XMs or 2611XMs (ie. two FE ethernet, and the XM gives more memory for running more current images) rather than the

But for the price that they charge on eBay for them, I'd still buy two factory refurb 2801's for $1069 each. You get a legit license to use them, they are the most current boxes. They run the latest code, they have cheap memory/flash upgrades.

You do have to get the WIC-1DSU-T1-V2 cards for them (the older non-V2 cards will NOT work in these boxes), but the gray-market versions of those are getting pretty cheap too on eBay.

Zoong Pham skrev:

Or you could try this out for free :)

Provided you have access to 7200 ios binaries.

-SAto