Re: Overall networking issue...

Walter Mautner wrote:
The 100MBit-Switches, do they have dedicated uplink ports that may be
replaced by GB or optical links?

I have to admit that I have not checked this yet... The current Mbit switches are naturally connected to each other, and I am guessing this connection is in the gigabit class, and we also have a single switch that uses a fiber connection to attach an internal network that is located further away than the standard 100 meter. Quite frankly I have played enough around with fiber-connections to *not* trust my own knowledge in this area. And if I have to play around with this part of the system, I will have to call in assistance from a professional. - And that may end up being the solution... But I am working within a limited budget (at a school), and was hoping for a simpler and cheaper solution. At the moment there is 5 or 6 managed megabit rack-switches each with 48 RJ45 ports to the front and some connection to each other on the back (I have not checked this part yet, and cannot do it until monday). And there is also a rack-switch for our internal fiber (mentioned above), and a rack-router/switch/something which handles our fiber internet connection. - And then there is a lot of wires...

I spend most of my time in the server-room, and know too little about our network. I have mostly just checked that the network-cables work, replaced a few RJ45 plugs and moved a network-cable in case some computer/server need direct internet-connection instead of going through the internal network. So my knowledge is limited...

In this case I simply need a faster connection from two servers in the server-room to the wired computers. First of all I am getting tired of having to carry the computers to a different location in order to write new images to the harddisks (the school is using Windows XP, and the computers collect a lot of garbage and it is easier to clone them at least every 3 months - every month would be better). At the moment we are using a separate network for cloning the computers, and I was thinking that it should be possible to do this using the existing network and clone the computers at their current location, if we had a faster connection from the client computers to the cloning-server. This is ment to happen late in the afternoon when nobody else is using the network. - Second of all the fileserver is extremely slow from the client-computers when a lot of people is using it at the same time. This is quite natural considering everything has to go through a 100Mbit/s connection and if there is 100 clients...

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