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No more hiding in the server room

I've got an ancient 2501 router sitting in a box next to me. I have no idea what IOS is on it, although I'd suspect it was 12.2. I wonder as I look at it "is it even worth the space it's taking up?"

You can rescue it from my dumpster if you can convince me it's worth it.

Tags: ccna, certification, cisco, lab

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This is just my opinion of course, but most of what you'd be interesting in learning off a Cisco router would have to with routing protocols. On a 2501 you're going to only have a couple of serial ports so that's going to complicate connectivity to other devices significantly. Plus that's going to be a pretty old version of IOS, so it's useful for learning in a general sense, but it's going to be quite out of date wrt features and syntax.

Really there's a lot of more relevant & up to date hardware out there on eBay or whatever so I'd just let it go. I mean unless you want to keep it for old times. I've got a closet of old hardware I keep around for the memories.
Yeah, that's what I figured. I'm trying to live minimalistically nowadays anyway. I like the concept of "100 things". I think this one is going to slip into the trash for the big sleep...
For ccna labs ... 2500 series is sufficient .... it will allow all the features required for the exam ...But if u want to go for ccnp .. then u need have a higher series router....
Thanks for the tip! =)

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