Don't. Just don't. Pull another run of cable if you have to.
Desktop switches are just wrong. I speak from much experience here. Just last month, we shuffled a bunch of folks around, and the facilities guy was moving PCs and printers, and noticed that there was a loose cable attached to a 5-port switch. So, not knowing what else to do with it, he plugged it into the 5 port switch. Which meant that both ends of the cable were in the same dumb, unmanaged, switch. That's your basic layer2 loop, right there. It killed performance for lots of people, until I tracked it down. I've had this happen so many times with stupid 5 and 8 port switches that if I could rip them all out I would do so in less time than it takes to write about it. But, we now have so many of them, because our wiring is so sparse, that I can't. Yet. It's a major line item in the IT CAPEX budget for next year. Kurt On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:00, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: > One of my users just claimed an unused laser printer for his office (Acct. > Manager) that has a network port on it as well as the usual USB. He'd like > to be able to network it so he can print to it from the AS/400. > What do you guys recommend for a small (4-5 port) network switch? > To anyone who wants to know, this is for real, looking for recommendations > for a RIGHT NOW purchase, not "next time." :-) > > Thanks! > > > > > > > ~ 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 > ~ 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
