Planning Your Home Lab

In the preceding section you looked at the three main lab offerings that are available to people who want to study for and pass the CCIE Security lab exam. In this section, you look at planning a home-based study lab.

Sourcing the Lab Equipment

Building a home lab can be a very costly exercise. The CCIE Security lab consists of roughly seven routers, two PIX Firewalls, and a single 3550 Catalyst switch. You also need at least one PC/server running ACS, CA, and the IDS management platform.

You also need to consider sourcing backbone routers. These backbone routers are used to inject routing information into the lab environment.

You can break the required equipment into four areas:

  • Routers

  • Switches

  • PIX Firewall

  • WAN connectivity ...

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