Originally posted by: Goosemaster
whaa...you want a price?
Check out ebay for decent prices. Search for 'Allied telesyn'
Once again, managed switches let you configure traffic en route, or after it's le4ft your pc.
Vlaning, QoS/traffic shaping, port blocking etc.....
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Depends on what you mean by "managed". My understanding is that "managed" means you can use an snmp based network tool to monitor and/or configure the device.
As yourself what you need in a switch, and whether those needs will be satisfied with a generic nonconfigurable device, or whether you need advanced features such as port or protocol based vlans, snmp, QoS, rate-limiting, etc...
Originally posted by: Genx87
You can pick up a cisco 1900 for about 130-150 bucks on ebay. They are managed switches. But be warned they are only 10mbps.
Originally posted by: ITJunkie
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Depends on what you mean by "managed". My understanding is that "managed" means you can use an snmp based network tool to monitor and/or configure the device.
As yourself what you need in a switch, and whether those needs will be satisfied with a generic nonconfigurable device, or whether you need advanced features such as port or protocol based vlans, snmp, QoS, rate-limiting, etc...
You have the right of it here. In order to support Vlans, however, the switch has to be Layer 3 (router) capable. Most of the higher end switches charge a little extra for that capability.
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Originally posted by: ITJunkie
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Depends on what you mean by "managed". My understanding is that "managed" means you can use an snmp based network tool to monitor and/or configure the device.
As yourself what you need in a switch, and whether those needs will be satisfied with a generic nonconfigurable device, or whether you need advanced features such as port or protocol based vlans, snmp, QoS, rate-limiting, etc...
You have the right of it here. In order to support Vlans, however, the switch has to be Layer 3 (router) capable. Most of the higher end switches charge a little extra for that capability.
Not always true. For example, the Foundry FastIron Workgroup Switch (24 10/100BASE-T ports, up to 2 gigabit uplink ports) has the ability to configure Layer 2 port-based vlans without using Layer 3 code. You just can't assign virtual interfaces to the configured vlans. (The device has the option of running (very) limited Layer 3 code, however, but that's independent of the vlan capability.)