I have expanded my home lab to include real cisco gear. I now have:<\/p>\n
Switches<\/p>\n
1 WS-C2950T-24
\n2 WS-C3560-24TS
\n1 WS-C3560-48TS<\/p>\n
Routers<\/p>\n
1 2851
\n2\u00a01841<\/p>\n
I put all of this gear into a 12U rack. I also added the Synology DS-412+ NAS to provide backup support for the wife’s and my laptops as well as being an ISCSI target for my Esxi host.<\/p>\n
I want to get another router for use as a Frame Switch and I needed to get a console server but couldn’t justify spending the bucks to get another router and NM-16A card\u00a0right now. I would like to have a Opengear IM4200, but that also was outside of my budget. I searched Google for a terminal server and discovered many articles that showed how to set up a raspberry PI as a console server. Well, I have a raspberry Pi and I have a serial USB adapter how hard could that be to set it up?<\/p>\n
I mainly followed the instructions from Network lessons Network Lessons<\/> <\/a>and Lesser-Evil<\/a> among others. I downloaded and installed ser2net on my Pi and was successful in getting it to work. So I went looking for inexpensive USB Serial adapters and USB hub with 8 ports or more.\u00a0I’m a customer of Monoprice so I thought I would start there, I was able to find USB Serial adapters with the prolific PL2303 chipset and a 24 port USB hub. I also ordered enough CAT6 cabling to connect up the routers and switches. <\/p>\n Next time I will discuss my experience with the console Pi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have expanded my home lab to include real cisco gear. I now have: Switches 1 WS-C2950T-24 2 WS-C3560-24TS 1 WS-C3560-48TS Routers 1 2851 2\u00a01841 I put all of this gear into a 12U rack. I also added the Synology DS-412+ NAS to provide backup support for the wife’s and my laptops as well as being an ISCSI target for… Read more → <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-life","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}