I have Packet Tracer and Cisco Virtual Lab at home. Some things I can't do on them. Can your virual lab environment do custom builds to practice with. I want to setup a Cisco Router for Frame Relay using the Frame-relay switching command.
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Your virtual lab environment. Can we build custom configurations to practice with?
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You can only customize the base configuration so much and cannot do a reboot to clear the config. But it's possible.
You just choose the NYWAN1 router as your Frame switch...
choose your interface....
e.g. config...
I think there's a lab that is setup for you to configure this one as a frame relaydtebecause the frame-switch is already setup...but you can create it using the NYWAN1 serial and using NYEDGE1 serial portIf you want to do a full blown lab you can always use a 7200 vxr IOS15.x image and import that into GNS3 to create your frame switch with serial ports too, which was more realistic.
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I tried GNS3 before going with VIRL. It was finding the images that I could legally use in GNS3 that was the problem. I have been on Cisco to get VIRL to work with real images and full blown hardware so we can do all the CCNP stuff on it. $200 a year and the last upgrade to it was 14 months ago.
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So, if you don't have a cisco contract, you've got the option I mentioned with practice-labs.
If you have a colleague from another company who has cisco contract, you might see if they do and can get an image for you to use educationally.
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My Cisco contract only allows the router we own not every device IoS
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right, so you've got then two options still
You can work with practice-labs.com . It's CCNP labs already have a FR lab setup. The only time you'll configure a FR switch is on the CCNP Service Provider Exam. So the lab is setup for you to create a frame relay router. But having said that, you can configure the NYWAN1 as a frame-relay switch, it has serial interfaces, you'll have one client NYEDGE1.
If you have a router that is not currently in use that has serial interfaces, you can setup a FR switch on those as well.
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I try not to buy real hardware because of the cost and Cisco requires smart net contracts to get IOS versions.
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Ok. So that leaves you with ONE solution currently with ITProTV which is for you to use practice-labs. I recommend that you take a cisco lab, use NYWAN1, you can configure FR on it. You can turn NYEDGE1 into the DTE for your FR switch.
As I've stated, you're not going to encounter this for CCNA or CCNP R/S. If you see it anywhere it would be for something like the CCNP SP exam. I'm not sure it would even be there now.
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@Ronnie-Wong 11 out of 65 questions including simulation on my CCNP - Route was on Frame Relay.
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It was the frame-relay switch configuration?
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I rather not post it online. Cisco would not be happy.
