Home Lab for extreme networking

[nola_saint]

Home Lab for Extreme Networking. Would like to setup a lab to learn about Extreme networking. What switches are good to buy off ebay for a home lab. What switches would be good to learn layer 3 routing and intervlan routing and is there a free version of netsight.

[Ronald_Dvorak]

Do you work for a Extreme Partner because that would change the answers a bit.

@community
could you even generate/get a XMC trial license without being a partner ?! I can't remember 🙂

[Drew_C]

I'm pretty sure anyone can create a trial license as long as they have a portal account. Doesn't necessarily have to be a partner account.

[Eric_Burke]

Try to stay away from the 430's too. They run SummitLite and you may be missing some features that you'll want to experiment with. As David said, 450's are cheap but 440's are likely a better choice.

[David_Rahn]

The VM is great for learning the command line. However there are some things that the VM lacks in... just the physical, how to do things, the process of upgrading a switch for a beginner, having the serial port, dealing with the boot rom, all good things for a learner to have hands on equipment.

to answer the OP, Find x440 x460 if you can , older x450s are a dime a dozen right now, but they are limited in software.( r 12 I think?) .. and of course stay away from any 200, 300 400 models ( they run EWARE not xos) stick with the 440/450/460 models. when you get to learning PIM and OSPF there is a trial license to enable the higher license of a 460 for some of those commands ( it is time limited and can only

[Ralf]

I think you could also use the EXOS VM images. You don't need hardware switches for learning networking.

You can found them here: https://github.com/extremenetworks/Virtual_EXOS

Best Regards, Ralf