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Good point. I do feel however at this age there isn’t a substitute for touching the hardware. Lugging it around. Setting it up. Tearing it down. Etc etc.

My CCNA was at least 15 years ago. I can’t remember exactly. I remember I did that and CEH at the same time.

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Hardware is the way to go unless you're wanting to do complex routing labs, then I prefer virtualization, in general.

Per my other comment, the subreddits I listed are by far way more informative than what you'll get from the HN audience. That's not meant to be a slam, it's just that the subreddits are a more targeted audience.

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