Re: [OT] cisco switch, router and firewall suggestions

2007-08-12 Thread Brian Candler
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 09:39:04AM +0100, Brian Candler wrote: > > Could anyone recommend anything that would be great for leaning > > purposes Sorry, my mistake - I thought you said for *learning* purposes. For *leaning* purposes, an empty 72xx chassis is probably heavy enough :-)

Re: [OT] cisco switch, router and firewall suggestions

2007-08-12 Thread Brian Candler
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 06:07:08PM +1000, Chris wrote: > I'm trying to buy (from ebay) a cisco switch, router and pix firewall > for learning purposes. All these will be connected to a Linksys ADSL > modem which also has wireless capability. The OSs will be OpenBSD4.1, > Windows XP and Linux distro

Re: [OT] cisco switch, router and firewall suggestions

2007-08-09 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 06:07:08PM +1000, Chris wrote: > I'm trying to buy (from ebay) a cisco switch, router and pix firewall > for learning purposes. All these will be connected to a Linksys ADSL > modem which also has wireless capability. The OSs will be OpenBSD4.1, > Windows XP and Linux distro

Re: [OT] cisco switch, router and firewall suggestions

2007-08-09 Thread Nick Davey
You should be deploying OBSD as routers, but since it's for learning :P. Buy the Cisco 2900XL, as the 1900 runs CatOS and is only 10meg. You can use the 2900XL as a production switch for your network (I do) and the fact that it runs IOS will be good for learning. For routers just use Dynagen, which

Re: [OT] cisco switch, router and firewall suggestions

2007-08-09 Thread David Newman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 06:07:08PM +1000, Chris wrote: >> I'm trying to buy (from ebay) a cisco switch, router and pix firewall >> for learning purposes. All these will be connected to a Linksys ADSL >> modem which also has wireless capability. The

Re: [OT] cisco switch, router and firewall suggestions

2007-08-09 Thread Reyk Floeter
why do you expect recommendations for gear from cizzco-eeh on an openbsd list? tsk tsk tsk On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 06:07:08PM +1000, Chris wrote: > I'm trying to buy (from ebay) a cisco switch, router and pix firewall > for learning purposes. All these will be connected to a Linksys ADSL > modem w