Difference Between Nm-2fe2w And Nm-2e2w, For the CCIE Home Lab

[jhop]

For the CCIE Home Lab

Please Let know the difference between NM-2FE2W and NM-2E2W

Does it make any difference (apart from 10/100M)

Since NM-2E2W is lot cheaper compared to NM-2FE2W

[mike987]

it might depend on the scenario that you will encounter.
if you were to setup trunk (router-on-a-stick, YUCK!), then you would need a 100MB connection.
chances of doing router-on-a-stick are very rare now, so you should be good to go.

if you were paranoid, than i guess you should buy atleast 1 of the 100MB and the rest 10mb and sway them out on a needed basis.

currently i'm using a NM 4E (4, 10mb ethernet on a 3620) to do internetwork expert v3 labs and have had no issues. i also have a NM 4S (4 ,Serial) too.

[joeb]

That's not true. Depends on the IOS if you can build a a router on stick config on a 10 MBit Interface.

I did this easyly with a IP Plus 12.3 IOS.

So there are not realy any other things you have to take care of not being able to configure.

[IPTdude]

The only issues that I've seen come up with the slow Ethernet interfaces (10MB) over the Fast Ethernet interfaces (100MB) using our IEWB-RS workbook is below:

1) ISL trunking is not supported on the slow Ethernet interfaces but dot1q is
2) When trunking with a slow Ethernet interface using dot1q the native VLAN must be 1

No support for ISL doesn't really matter as ISL is being phased out any ways. Other than those two issue you are wasting money buying the NM-2FE2W over the over the NM-2E2W.