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 &nbsp;Thanks for the info. &nbsp;I appreciate your quick response.<br />
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Jim<br />

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 Thanks for the info.  I appreciate your quick response.

Jim


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 I am flattening out an 13 vlan network down to three vlans with a cisco 4006 as the core, I know it is eol but the client has purchased support from cisco. &nbsp;As I look over the config I notice that every port that is connected to a workstation has the following entires<br />
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interface FastEthernet3/5<br />
&nbsp;description user<br />
&nbsp;switchport access vlan 2<br />
&nbsp;speed 100<br />
&nbsp;duplex full<br />
&nbsp;no snmp trap link-status<br />
&nbsp;spanning-tree portfast<br />
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&nbsp; I understand all the configuration entires however, is it totally necessay for hard setting the speed to 100 and duplex to full? &nbsp;I seem to have much better success with auto-neg on cisco switches. &nbsp;Portfast enabeles the port to come online faster but is it extra processing that the switch does nt need to do considering that it is already the core with several other uplinks into to it from other floors. &nbsp;I would like to take the basic port for each workstation down to the following.<br />
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interface FastEthernet5/5<br />
&nbsp;description user<br />
&nbsp;switchport access vlan 2<br />
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&nbsp; Set the NICs on the PC's to auto and the the hardware devices get tot he best speed. &nbsp;An thoughts?<br />
<br />
Jim<br />
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 I am flattening out an 13 vlan network down to three vlans with a cisco 4006 as the core, I know it is eol but the client has purchased support from cisco.  As I look over the config I notice that every port that is connected to a workstation has the following entires

interface FastEthernet3/5
 description user
 switchport access vlan 2
 speed 100
 duplex full
 no snmp trap link-status
 spanning-tree portfast

  I understand all the configuration entires however, is it totally necessay for hard setting the speed to 100 and duplex to full?  I seem to have much better success with auto-neg on cisco switches.  Portfast enabeles the port to come online faster but is it extra processing that the switch does nt need to do considering that it is already the core with several other uplinks into to it from other floors.  I would like to take the basic port for each workstation down to the following.

interface FastEthernet5/5
 description user
 switchport access vlan 2

  Set the NICs on the PC's to auto and the the hardware devices get tot he best speed.  An thoughts?

Jim



CISCO 4006 config. Necessary entries?

A switch is a device that filters and forwards packets of data between LAN segments. Switches operate at the data link layer or the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model and therefore support any packet protocol. LANs that use switches to join segments are called switched LANs or, in the case of Ethernet networks, switched Ethernet LANs. A hub is a connection point for devices in a network. Hubs are commonly used to connect segments of a LAN. A hub contains multiple ports; when a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets.