Getting into VLAN's here. Would like some direction. I have a campus of several buildings connected back to an office building with cat5. Each building has a switch providing network access to PC's, printers, appliances, etc. Currently all the switches in use are unmanaged. The goal is to allow guest wireless access to the internet, and deny any access to the staff network from the guest network in these buildings.
What I have at my disposal: 1) Cisco (2) 2900XL & (5) 2950 switches (in a test setup on my desk) 2) Access points that can be configured to use unique VLAN's for primary and guest SSID's I'm reading a lot of documentation but struggling to find the practical application in what I'm trying to do. I'm not experienced with Cisco at all, but am comfortable on the command line. I've reset the switches to default settings and assigned Vlan1 an ip I can get to via telnet and the Cisco Network Assistant. These are old switches I know. I'm pondering upgrading our network to gigabit, and if I do, the HP gear looks a lot better priced than Cisco. If in spite of the upgrade costs anyone thinks I would be better off to do that I would like to hear it. I need 48 ports in the office, three buildings with 16 ports and two with 8 ports. -- Mike ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
