CCIE RS Home Lab

After a long period of procrastination (probably from the fresh scars of the first CCIE) I finally have my RS rack up and running and with the IOS upgraded (still need a flash upgrade on R5)! I have had most of the equipment racked for about two months but have been able to find any excuse not to fire it up. I was able to reuse some of the equipment from my home voice lab but this time around it took quite a few more Ebay orders to complete. I also had so sell some of my voice stuff (NM-HDV & MFT cards) to finance some of it. I have decided to go with the Internetwork Expert setup and was able to pull it off with some alternative platforms. Here is what I went with:

Device — Interfaces Needed ——- I Went With

R1 —— 1 Ethernet, 2 Serial —— 2610xm w WIC-2T
R2 —— 1 Ethernet, 2 Serial —— 2610xm w WIC-2T
R3 —— 2 Ethernet, 4 Serial —— 2610xm w 2x WIC-2T & NM-1E
R4 —— 2 Ethernet, 2 Serial —— 2611xm w WIC-2T
R5 —— 2 Ethernet, 2 Serial —— 2611xm w WIC-2T
R6 —— 2 Ethernet, 1 Serial —— 2611xm w WIC-2T
SW1 —— 24 Ethernet ———— 3550-48-EMI
SW2 —— 24 Ethernet ———— 3550-48-EMI
SW3 —— 24 Ethernet ———— 3560-24G
SW4 —— 24 Ethernet ———— 3560-24G
BB1 —— 1 Serial —————— 2501
BB2 —— 1 Ethernet ———— 1760-v
BB3 —— 1 Ethernet, 1 Serial —— 2503
FRSwitch —— 8 Serial ———— 2523
Access Sever —— 10 Asynchronous Serial ——2511

I’ll post a few pictures once I get it cleaned up.