Questions about a small peer to peer and a managed switch.
A local business asked me to re install their network.
THey have a WIFI connect to the ineter net. It goes to a pc with the wifi card then they have antoher nic that has a line out to a switch.
From there it is a mess .ines going all over the building to othert switches and hubs etc.
The pc has ICS enabled. I want them to replace this PC with an Cisco 350 Air Bridge that goes to a brodband routter... then from that router to a managed SWITCH.
How hard is it to set up a managed swith? I would like to have the ability to log into the switch to see what port is sending HELLA traffic etc..to help down the road for trouble shooting.
Are they easy to get going right out of the box, or is it a pain in the ass to "program" them?
Any recomendations for a managed one? The network will have about 15-20 PC's.
There will be a sub network with 3 computers....but it is not to see the out side world for security reasons.
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i use Cisco 2950-24 and -48 switches for my access layer devices. These are managed devices and i enable SNMP traps on them. i use PRTG software that captures the SNMP traffic and shows me, in a graph, exactly how much traffic is entering and leaving those ports.
http://www.paessler.com
i use Cisco 2950-24 and -48 switches for my access layer devices. These are managed devices and i enable SNMP traps on them. i use PRTG software that captures the SNMP traffic and shows me, in a graph, exactly how much traffic is entering and leaving those ports.
http://www.paessler.com
Thank you :)
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What I am looking for here....
I want to have a switch that I can log into form a pc to VIEW the traffic. IF I see that port 7 is sending 80Gigs of traffic a week I will know that something is up =)
I plan on replacing the whole network.
Not sure if this can be done or not... but
Can I have:
Network A contain 3 peer to peer PC's that NEVER see the out side world and no matter what happens the out side world can NEVER see or hack into network A
Network B contain 9 pc's All have ineternet connections. I would love to allow `1-2 of these pc be able to see and share files with network A. Not sure how I can do this with out some sort of security risk of network A.