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I have an asa5505 to lab with. Was looking at juniper recently, just for diversity. Are the SRX110 the entry level branch fw now? I saw some Dells FW which looked rebadged. However my friend told me dell bought out sonicwall, so would be pushing those now. SSG are vpn concentrators only...

Cisco Config Professional will do Routers. Replaces the old SDM (like ASA's ASDM). Not sure if i can do switches however. Never used it myself. SSH/command line for me.

If the phone is running SIP, then it has smarts in it, and just needs to register with registrar (provider). The cisco phones like to use skinny, which requires call manager to tell the phone what to do. You can get smartnet on the phone to install SIP firmware to get out of that. I...

Last time i looked at caching, I found a lot of sites were dynamic and said not to cache. Also squid wouldnt cache youtube etc, had to buy some addon. Still doesnt cost much to implement, and a school 'needs' to have something doing access control.

I havent drunk the EMC koolaid yet. I read the book which struck chord with me on redundancy and backup/DR etc. Sat the exam because I didnt like Comptia Storage+ renewal policy. Learned a heap about SANs in the process. I asked about VNXe since it was priced for lower end of the market. Last...

The cheaper seasonic have S2FC (Smart & Silent Fan Control) Havent checked if it turns off completely, but gets my tick. S12II. I have an Antec basiq 500 from years ago, that was sound loud i wanted to cry.

Hello, I have just sat the EMC ISA exam. I was wondering who here has deployed or sold the vnxe systems. I am interested to hear what requirements were, and what swayed your decision. I dont work for a partner so unlikely to actually touchone myself.

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Videos are good. However, they all start to sound like muppets to me. They never go into very much detail, and sometimes they dont set things up properly (new terms). You really have to persevere with the books. I find stuff makes 'more' sense every time i go back to books. There is a lot of...

I saw captures mentioned in the Orange covered Firewall book by cisco. First and only time for IOS device.

Which labs? I think you can handle switch with 2 2950 and 1 or 2 3550. I had 2x 2950 + 1x 3550 for practice.

@gabi: the 10 seconds isnt spanning tree / port fast listening for bpdu? @dragon: are these switches noisy? do they have fans? ive not heard of 5 gig links before. Is this watered down 10gig? or stacking cable only? im a bit wary of cisco small biz. saw a heap of earlier product reviews on...

15tb / 50 project = 300 gig each. I dont think any cloud will provide moments notice backup restoration. How fat are pipes there? Reminds me of this thread. Although your not 4k definition. http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1690663 You will probably find stuff from past 90 days needs to...

I would leave them for a home lab. I find real equipment is kinda noisy to have in home office. Best to hide in garage or closet. Also not fun to break routing when family want to use the internet =) The 2x switches will be good for getting hands on with switches. Setting up vlans and trunks...

definately bond the 4x cat6 into etherchannel between closets. Spanning tree would disable the other 3 otherwise. As mentioned. pick one switch in each closet to be distribution switch. port 44-48 between your two closet distribution switches. Have the remaining 2 acess layer switches uplink...