looking at cisco switches

[scoobydoo26]

Our network is currently 30 users expanding to 40 in the next 6 months along with moving locations. The new location will require switches on either side and running a fiber backbone to optimize bandwith and reduce bottlenecks. Currently have 2 linksys hubs which i would stack one each on top of switches for growth. I have looked at cisco 2924 with fiber ports....does anyone have any recommendations ? Also, are these switches relatively easy to setup? They should build MAC tables as they receive packets correct?

Thanks!

 

[UNIX72]

If you plan to use fiber for the uplink port try to get 2 modules increase bandwith. You should uplink the hubs to the switch and from switch to switch fastethernet channel.

 

[DanielBowen]

2924XL switches are very easy to set up as they use IOS.

The only functionality that you would need to configure would be to set the fiber ports as access links linking to the main switch and then configure each 100BaseT port again as an access list

router#(config-if) switchport mode access

They will create their own MAC address tables without any user intervention as that is the basis of switching/bridging

For increased performance, also consider implementing VLANs to contain broadcast domains within these two switches

hope this has helped,

Daniel

 

[scoobydoo26]

thanks!

 

[yass]

you might want to look at the newer 2950 series switches. Same price as 2900's but better performance, QoS, etc. These will gradually replace the 2900 series.

There's a 2950C-24. This has 24 10/100 ports plus 2 100baseFX uplinks.