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Nod. The spec for 100 base-T only uses two pair. Thats the good news. The bad news is that the other 4 have to remain idle as a stabilizing element. By spec you can't just take the others for other uses. Now ... could you use the others and still have your network work. Yes, quite...

I'd agree with the above post. But to answer your question in more general terms, "latest software" and "feature pack" are not the same issue. Cisco licenses different feature sets at different prices. The concept is that you won't need to buy features you don't need...

Well... the truth is it can be done statically.. but you wouldn't want to do it. For static to be configured you have to manually do EVERY conversion one at a time. So just doing static from one /24 to another would require 254 individual entries. Not counting the time of fixing typos... it...

Depends what you mean. "Trunk" is the most overused/misused word in this business. In terms of the IEEE, 802.1Q(VLAN tagging) defines any link carrying tagged frames as a trunk. 3COM refers to 802.3AD (Link Aggregation) as a trunk. Cisco refers to ISL links between switches as a...

Couple of pieces of information on Extreme Networks. 1.) Their support infrastructure is in place. It isn't as grandiose as Cisco's but it doesn't need to be. (They only build Ethernet/POS switches... so they don't need all the SNA, Frame, etc etc departments.) 2.) I have instructed hundreds...

I would also look into Extreme networks. They tend to be less pricey than Cisco, have better features, better performance, and are a LOT easier to configure. 3Com products aren't bad, but their future is somewhat dubious. They also have a nasty habit of going dead during the 1st few weeks...

Contact 3com tech support. There is a backdoor, but they will have to do it for you.

Those are two different career paths. You should decide based on what you enjoy doing, not on how much money they pay. You'll never be great at something you don't love doing. If you aren't great at it... you won't be paid great for doing it either. You can make a lot of money at either, but...

This is too vague. A design that does what or shows what? To be blunt: a LAN (or WAN design for that matter) solves a specific set of problems within a specific set of criteria. IE: if I needed to support 300 clients talking to 5 servers in 3 different campuses within one geographic area...

This is a complex question. What do you mean by domain in this case? Broadcasts are a layer-2 (usually frame) issue. In an Ethernet enviornment, this is a frame with a destination MAC address of all F's. As a general rule, routers do not forward them and switches don't stop them. They go to...