Building a home small lab
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 8:41 pm
Hi im building a small lab to improve my networking skills currently have 951G-2HnD and was going to invest a couple more hEX S and a few small managed switches, I plan to populate the various subnets/lan's with Raspberry PI's I have kicking about.
Cost is a issue im aware of GNS3 but prefer to have some hands on experieance that home lan packets can pass through. Is my plan flawed and can anyone recommend a decent book or two to add to this. Am I right in thinking the smaller Mikrotik routers and switches pretty much do what the bigger ones do but obviously slower and have less ports.
Thanks for any help...........
Cost is a issue im aware of GNS3 but prefer to have some hands on experieance that home lan packets can pass through. Is my plan flawed and can anyone recommend a decent book or two to add to this. Am I right in thinking the smaller Mikrotik routers and switches pretty much do what the bigger ones do but obviously slower and have less ports.
Thanks for any help...........