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Home Office/Cisco Lab

More pics coming?

What do you do with this at home?

More pics are coming slowly. I still have to find my Compactflash reader.

As far as what I do with the routers, I use those for my Cisco lab. The first and last router (all are 2811's) have the Enterprise K9 image, and the middle one has the Enterprise Voice image for IP telephony.

Camera have a USB port?

USB 1.1 which is painful...I'll have pix up in January once I get back home.

1.1 isn't *that* bad for a few pictures..
You can always start the transfer, go eat, come back to it being finished.
Anyway, looking forward to seeing more pictures when you have a chance to post.

reply to sk1939
Cool! Are you willing to answer some questions from someone who is completely ignorant of networking gear beyond consumer-level stuff?

What are the large connectors/cables between the switches for? Are they data interconnection >1000Mbps between switches to avoid the bottleneck of just connecting them with Ethernet? Are they some kind of configuration cable?

reply to gattaca
Those are serial links and are much slower than Ethernet. They are running at T1 speeds at the moment. Those cables aren't used for much nowadays other than for external T1 connections.

reply to sk1939

sweet
what kinda deal did you get on those 3750s ?
and did you get the stake cables?

I got them for about $600 each. I didn't get the stack cables, but I'll get them at some point. My next step is to acquire a 3750-X or 3560E.

wow for that price I'd consider getting the stackwise NME module for my 3745

do those have dual power supplies?

They have the RPS connector, but beyond that only the 3750X and 3560E have truly redundant power supplies.

is that a pic of them?
those look to have a slot for a 2nd power supply

I know some 3750's had dual power and those other modles are just newer revisions, and lesser ones offten didn't include the 2nd power supply in the sku

Yes, those are the 3750X's.

The slots for the second power supply is to the right. The ports directly to the left of the power supply is the stack cable for power. If you stack them with the power cable, you don't need a redundant power supply because it will fail over to one of the other power supplies in the stack.

Most of the 3750's and 3750G's to my knowledge didn't have redundant PSU's, only the RPS connector.

I seem to recall from drooling over the specs when the 3750's were the current model that the top end of the 3750's had redundant power, could be a model that is forgoten about as the people that would have bought it were likely few

They're still current; haven't reached EoS yet.

The only one that MIGHT have it is the 3750G-16TD, but I don't think so. According to Cisco, redundant PS's are only available built in on the 3560E, 3560X, and 3750X. The top end 3750's are the 3750X's.

Ya there are some models that vanished from cisco's site almost

as the X and the E's are a newer gen than the G's

I know my 2960G switch isn't listed with the other 2960's anymore

reply to sk1939

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