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not required.<br />
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<a href="http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk689/technologies_tech_note09186a00800a7af3.shtml" rel="ugc">http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk689/technologies_tech_note09186a00800a7af3.shtml</a>
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not required.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk689/technologies_tech_note09186a00800a7af3.shtml [http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk689/technologies_tech_note09186a00800a7af3.shtml]

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What do you mean saying register on the LAN?
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What do you mean saying register on the LAN?

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Sorry typo! Not actually registering on the LAN just meaning the switch is LAN facing with &nbsp;assigned port connected to WAN router. Sorry not sure where the &quot;on the LAN&quot; came from as that makes no sense. <br />
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Previously I have activated support and features using activation keys in SonicWALL and wondered if the same applied to cisco?
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Sorry typo! Not actually registering on the LAN just meaning the switch is LAN facing with  assigned port connected to WAN router. Sorry not sure where the "on the LAN" came from as that makes no sense.

Previously I have activated support and features using activation keys in SonicWALL and wondered if the same applied to cisco?

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Yes I will have to do that so that's very useful. Thanks. I plan to play with the CLI it's just been a while.
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Yes I will have to do that so that's very useful. Thanks. I plan to play with the CLI it's just been a while.

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It's been a while since my CCNA exam so apologies if this is a dumb question. <br />
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Do I need to register Cisco switches on the LAN and or have registration codes when installing? <br />
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How does the support work? <br />
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I have used SonicWall for the past 8 years so a little out of of the cisco loop and struggling to find good reference material. <br />
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Thanks in advance.
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It's been a while since my CCNA exam so apologies if this is a dumb question. 

Do I need to register Cisco switches on the LAN and or have registration codes when installing? 

How does the support work? 

I have used SonicWall for the past 8 years so a little out of of the cisco loop and struggling to find good reference material. 

Thanks in advance.

Cisco Switch 3560G

A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks. Routers perform the "traffic directing" functions on the Internet. The most familiar type of routers are home and small office cable or DSL routers that simply pass data, such as web pages, email, IM, and videos between computers and the Internet. More sophisticated routers, such as enterprise routers, connect large business or ISP networks up to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speed along the optical fiber lines of the Internet backbone. Though routers are typically dedicated hardware devices, use of software-based routers has grown increasingly common.

Routers

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.

Switches / Hubs

Networking hardware includes the physical devices facilitating the use of a computer network. Typically, networking hardware includes gateways, routers, network bridges, modems, wireless access points, networking cables, line drivers, switches, hubs, and repeaters. But it also includes hybrid network devices such as multilayer switches, protocol converters, bridge routers, proxy servers, firewalls, network address translators, multiplexers, network interface controllers, wireless network interface controllers, ISDN terminal adapters and other related hardware.