Well, dude, I see what you're saying, that day mostly wasn't a good one for me reading or answering questions. Don't know where my brain went.
The link to Ebay doesn't work for me, so I did a search instead. For my first answer I just looked at new equipment, but this time I looked on ebay for all 48-port switches. You're right, they do have some with bidding starting < $100. So, unless they get bid up, you could get a deal. As for a patch panel, normal usage you are correct. And, I might be wrong, since I'm relying on 10 year old memories of when I was physically involved in network configurations, but I'd swear we used a patch panel as a simple dumb hub, letting the switch do all the work, but just through a single hookup to the panel. But that's not important. What you really need, as you said, is help determining if you're going to be able to configure a Cisco router, and, as to that, the first answer is good, yes? Just plug it in - it should work without further configuration. I think you are right about Cisco having a proprietary method/CLI to "talk" to the router. But I've never done that, sorry. But if you're buying the unit from somebody, maybe you can get them to tell you something about how to "talk" to the switch if it DOESN'T "just work". Good luck. On Dec 30 2009, 10:28 pm, linux konqueror in progress <[email protected]> wrote: > As far patch panel goes that is dead device incapable of dividing/ > switching,routing,splitting any traffic what so ever.It only works as > place where wires get connected and routed to different receptacles on > walls to ports on network devices or another patch panels. > > On Dec 30, 9:58 pm, spokeman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > First, some of the words you use are (probably) incorrect, and will > > lead to miscommunication. Eg, "internet cloud" I think you just mean > > "internet". "Cloud" indicates something else, and this could be > > significant. > > > Second, your budget of $100 is nowhere near enough to even cover the > > options you mention. You are presenting an impossible problem. $100 > > will NOT buy a48-portswitch, of any brand. Perhaps you meant $1,000 > > (one thousand). > > > Now, since I've been curmudgeonly first, I will proceed to be more > > positively helpful. > > > You can put in aswitchwith 4 ports, and a patch panel, to accomplish > > your48-portrequirement for under $100. The patch panel is a simple > > connection device, having one input jack, and however many output > > jacks for all your computers. A patch panel is a hard-wired solution. > > A wifi router orswitchwill do the same thing, but it will use wifi > > speeds, which are much much slower than wired solutions. You can buy a > > patch panel, or build one from RJ-45 receptacles. > > > For that matter, you can chain routers and switches to reach your LAN > > clients. > > > Whatever hardware solution you come up with, you are going to be the > > point person for figuring out how to make it "just work". If that is > > really beyond your capacity, hire a consultant. > > > Good luck. > > > On Dec 18, 12:01 pm, linux konqueror in progress <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > Our company have hub(netgear ds524) with 24 ports populated by 2 > > > servers and 3 printers and rest is clients. > > > The fans are going out so while l'm replacing the fans I need backup/ > > > upgrade solution. > > > Preferring aswitchwith48ports. > > > More ports to have some space andswitchto improve traffic on the > > >networkvs hub. > > > Budged 100$ ( not whole lot but it will do) > > > > One Linux server and one Unix server get the most traffic from > > > clients. > > > Unix get lot of local connections and linux both local and wan > > > connections from local backups and web page requests. > > > about 20 Windows based client are connecting+wan clients. > > > > I have no hands-on experience witch switches of mentioned size. > > > looking in something like this: > > > 3COM 3C17302-US SuperStack > > > or > > > this:http://cgi.ebay.com/3COM-3CR17501-91-48-Port-10-100-Ethernet-Switch_W... > > > > There is lot of Cisco switches available.Wonder what it takes to > > > configure them for just basicnetworkswitching. > > > > Current set up is simple: > > > internet cloud>router>hub>{servers,printers,clients} > > > > Thank you. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
