A while back I had the experience of witnessing a large network expenditure for similar reasons as the below.
Unfortunately, the underlying problems *causing* the collisions and broadcasts went unaddressed. Raw speed can hide many ills. For a while. Before moving over to a switched environment, you might want to take a comparatively easy look at your 10Mb shared environment. You should be able to take a peek at all the traffic, all at once, and find any glaring errors there. There has been much previous groupstudy traffic on inexpensive/free and costly ethernet sniffers available. Of course, remote management per port on switches is also useful, and one *can* use port mirroring to sniff the wire. Nonetheless, I'd take the time to doctor up that shared ethernet first. Best, G. VP OGC > -----Original Message----- > Subject: RE: Infrastructure Upgrade..... [7:37627] > > Actually what we are trying to do is increase speed, > eliminate collisions > and reduce any kind of broadcasting in the LAN.... > > Subject: Re: Infrastructure Upgrade..... [7:37627] > > Well, > > You did pick a pretty expensive switch to purchase...hehe > > the 1900's are 10mb to the desktop... You'll see some Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=37675&t=37627 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
