OSU CS 372 ---> Hunting for cisco routers

[John Sechrest]

Austin Schutz <tex at gblx.net> writes:


 % 	Have you asked the ucs people? I would be surprised if they
 % didn't have a few older ones sitting around. 

 I asked the NERO people and got 3 routers. It looks like I will
 have at least 50 in the class and perhaps as many as 100.
 so more routers seems wise. 


 % Also the oceanic sciences
 % folk were rumored to have a large collection of stuff around.

 Ok. I will call chuck.


 % 	If that fails and you don't get donated equipment you should
 % be able to find something usable on ebay for less than $300 or so
 % per router. Since you aren't going to be doing anything complex you
 % should be able to use pretty old hardware without trouble. Even if you
 % stuck your students with the bill (can you do that?) you'd be looking at
 % $30 per student or so, a lot less than the average text.


 At this point, I can not stick the students with the bill.

 But I may be able to find some departmental money for it.





 % > 	Classes start on 1/9/2002. If you know of a router that I could
 % > 	use, please let me know as soon as you can.
 % > 
 % > 	If you don't know anything about any of this... Then I am sorry
 % > 	to have disturbed your email.
 % > 
 % > 	Thank you for any help you can provide with this effort.
 % > 
 % > 	As an aside, I am writing up the final course assignments and
 % > 	course schedule this week. If you think there is something 
 % > 	specific that OSU CS students should know about networking, 
 % > 	now is the time to tell me. And I will see if I can get
 % > 	it into the material.
 % > 
 % 
 % 	I would expect you would want to have at least three routers to
 % demonstrate what happens during failover... what happens to the traffic
 % before and after you e.g. jerk an ethernet cable out of a router.
 % 	Presumably it would be too advanced to discuss routing protocols in
 % depth, but I would think at least a conceptual demonstration might be
 % worthwhile.
 % 
 % 
 % 	Austin
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