No one told me about 802.1q Vlan before I boght the switch. It was
printed in big fat letters on the box. Now I *do* know about 802.1q but
it's a little bit too late: I already have the switch. Fortunately
(unfortunately) the switch is gone, it's dead. Now I want a better
switch and I'm asking so I don't fall into the same trap *again*.
Again, this big switch is not the only device I bought only to find out
it doesn't exactly do what I want it to do. I also got a nice little
ZyXEL VPN collecting dust in a drawer somewhere. I wanted a VPN
router/firewall that allowed me to connect to my network from my
Windows-based Laptop computer, using the tools available in the system.
Guess what: I *can* connect to the ZyXEL using an paid-for client that
costs almost as much as the firewall itself. I'm now running PopTop on
my Linux Asterisk box and it works just fine, and it's a lot cheaper.
And I did learn about a few other standards names in the process: AFTER
I bought the hardware device.
So the idea is very simple: I need a switch that does VoIP well, has
lots of ports and does 802.1q VLAN. I also want it to be managed and
have it's management tools help me diagnose problems. That's my biggest
question right now: What *exactly* am I looking for? My Trendent switch
has management and it's easy to use for what it does, but it would never
help me diagnose a network problem. It took a number of disconected
*local* LAN VoIP calls before I noticed the switch is flowed and needs
to be replaced.
Thanks,
Cosmin Prund
Patrick Cervicek wrote:
Cosmin Prund schrieb:
P.S: For those that don't understand WHY I can't trust marketing
material, let me tell you something about the Trendnet switch that's
fast becoming "garbidge". I wanted an managed switch so I boght the
switch had "Managed" and "Virtual LAN" in the biggest possible
letters. Later, after buying two Intel 1Gb Virtual Lan Enabled
network cards, I discovered my Trendnet switch doesn't do standard
VLan, it only does VLan if linked to an other Trendnet switch - not
useful at all!
"Standard Vlan" = 802.1q
Trendnet offered you only "VLAN in the Switch", not 802.1q
You have to look for the Protocol *802.1q*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLAN#Protocols_and_design
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