Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: A Guide To Cable Types
When you’re putting your CCNA and/or CCNP home lab together, you’re not just buying routers and switches you’re creating a blueprint for success. There is no better way to learn about how real Cisco routers and switches work than to work with the real thing!
Of course, it’s not enough to just get the routers and switches you’ve got to have the right cables and other devices to allow them to communicate. Let’s take a look at the different cables and connectors you need to know about when putting together your CCNA and CCNP home labs.
The basic cable you’ll need is a straight-through cable. These are used to connect your switches and routers also, if you have an ISDN simulator, you’ll need a straight-through cable to connect the router’s BRI interface to the simulator.
A more specialized cable type is the DTE/DCE cable. If you plan to use the serial interfaces on your routers (and you certainly should be!), you’ll need some of these cables. To connect two routers directly via their serial interfaces, you must have a DTE/DCE cable....
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