What you need for this book

The book will provide you with a couple of options to choose your lab architecture concept: based on hardware network devices and on a virtual network. You can vary the number of simultaneously running virtual and hardware hosts in both concepts, so the main hardware requirement is to have a computer capable of running 2-3 virtual machines simultaneously. For example, a laptop with an Intel Core i7 CPU, 8 GB RAM, and 100 GB free hard drive space is capable to fulfill all tasks.

Additionally, you will need a small office/home wireless router and a hardware access point (we use a Cisco IOS-based access point).

For the concept, based on hardware network devices, you will also need to have a manageable switch with at least ...

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