Wendell Odom, Cisco press author, instructor and blogger was recently a repeat guest for Network World chat. Attendees asked him the best ways to build a home lab, which certifications still have ...

Buy one router, even an old klonky 2501, and you can get some benefit for hands-on practice for CCENT and CCNA. It’s not very exciting, but you can at least try out the CLI, save configs, upgrade the ...