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Should I Learn Cisco Router/ Switch or PIX Firewall?
I am trying to see which would be better for me to learn. I have my CCNA so I have worked with switches and routers for testing purposes. I haven't touched PIX yet and was wondering if I should learn that as well? I know Cisco is used in large companies and I want to make myself marketable if I should apply for a job. I am looking for suggestions and if you don't mind, please suggest a Cisco product that you would recommend for me to use for testing and learning purposes.
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That all depends on how much you want to spend and to really learn switching you would need 2 at least and I would say start with 3550-24-EMI that will give you the full feature set for L3 switching.
The Cat6000 are killer but probably outside a normal person's price range.
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The Cat6000 are killer but probably outside a normal person's price range.
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Could I use a simulator to practice or do I need the real thing?
You could use a simulator however I have found in the LAN side of the world a big protion of the problems end up being layer 1 and a simulator just will not give you that kind of feed back.
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