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?

No... I have studied the structure a bit closer today. And the fastest connections used in the rack are 100Mbit/s CAT5 RJ45 cables. At the moment there is about ten 24-ports 100Mbit/s switches and one fiber-connection to a remote building. And all of these are connected to each other using standard 100Mbit/s CAT5 cables. - And we have to make some changes to get a gigabit connection for our servers. At the moment I am thinking about buying a new gigabit backbone switch that I can connect all of the other switches to, and this gigabit switch should have enough extra ports so that all of the internal servers can connect here directly (a 24-ports gigabit switch should be enough). That way it should be possible to get 100Mbit/s from the servers to each of the older megabit switches. This should give a more acceptable speed for the clients connection to the fileserver (through the older megabit switches).

At the moment my biggest problem is, that I have to figure out which 24-ports gigabit backbone switch to buy. And the marked for these switches is so huge that I cannot decide... I am looking for something with 24 gigabit ports, that auto-negotiates the connection speed (most switches do). But regarding the management features I am still wondering which would be better. There should probably be some minor layer 2 management functions, but not too complicated, and it would be easier if the switch did most of the configuration itself (I am the only linux-nerd). We also still have a limited budget, so the price is also an issue. - If you have any suggestions for a good 24-ports gigabit backbone switch that can handle this task, I will appreciate it.

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