On Monday 10 July 2006 15:49, Nate Sanders wrote: > Anyone have some 2500's or similar level equip they would be > willing to part with? I want to start on the Cisco Cert path and I > prefer to learn hands on then by book alone. You might want to consider getting a simulator. Generally much cheaper than real gear and you can test configurations on the sim before actually attempting to do the job in real life. :) I've used BOSON's netsim and have been pretty happy with it. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel