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Bandwidth Ideal Solutions For Bandwidth Hungry Companies
Every business needs bandwidth solutions of some sort. For many businesses that require large amounts of bandwidth finding just the right solution....from a cost and application standpoint....can be a...
 
Backup-Route + Traffic
Hi, I have seen one suspect thing as I analysed the backup route. There are traffic on the backup route which are produced by our Fluke Network Analyzer tools. No other kind of traffic. But in my...
 
San appliance sustained read -write?
What kind of sustained mbits/sec read and write can gigabit Ethernet SAN appliances like the LaCie Ethernet Big Disk or Lacie Ethernet Disk Raid provide? I have an old Snap server which only has...
 
Advice on cheap corp 10/100/1000 switch please
I have a network at work consisting of 3Com Superstack 3300's (10/100 managed switches)(2 in the server room and two more to feed users). I would like to add a gigabit switch (to the server room) so...
 
Looking for half duplex simulation algorithm
Hi Everybody, I'm working in an application which enables clients to transmit audio to each other in full duplex. We want to make the system half duplex - what we are going to do is compare the...
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Quiet gigabit switch?
I need a 24-port gigabit switch to work in a quiet office environment. I've read reviews of the most popular switches that suggest that they have very loud fans. Does anyone know of one which is...
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802.3ad and multiple mac addresses
I have a question about multiple mac addresses and aggregator. There can be multiple mac addresses per port if virtual interfaces are created and in this situation physical nic and virtual nic have...
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Newbie: cheap cable tester?
How do I test to see if a particular cat 6 connection will run at full speed? I'm not sure that every punchdown we've done is a good one. Is there an easy way to test the quality of a connection?
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Newbie: how to organize cables on a patch panel?
I'm wiring up my office. We've got 16 workstations, two jacks per. I've run cat 6 cable to a central wiring hub, and need to punch down everything into a 48 port patch panel. The trouble is, I've...
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VPC or VMWare and Vlans an intersting one.
Background At current i have three rooms all on a seperate VLANS, the internet on a seperate VLAN, and a management VLAN. The computers in these one of these rooms are running Microsoft Virtual PC and...
 
vmware & 802.3ad
On vmware , when nic bonding is used , I think , packets going out and coming in , use the mac address of the team (aggregator) and not of virtual nic. Am I correct ? who assigns the mac address to...
 
Upgrading ethernet network to gigabit?
We're getting new computers with gigabit capability and a new switch for the office. Is replacement of all cabling and receptacles required in order to achieve gigabit speeds? I've been asked this...
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Unidirectional Low-Level Data-Pattern On Ethernet Link
[IFG][Pre-Amble][Destination Address][Source Address][Type/Length] [Payload][CRC][IFG]... I would like to know if the diagram above is an accurate characterization of the data stream on an Ethernet...
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No link detection on copper SFP
Hi All, On the development platform I'm running into a problem where MAC doesn't detect Los of Signal (LOS) link status on copper SFP when both link partners are forced to 1000/Full (AN is off). In...
 
Help configuring VLANs on HP Procurve 2824 switch
Our ISP is going to provide us with the following over one physical ethernet wire: 1. Internet access on VLAN 3854 2. Private network to our branch location on VLAN 1024 I have a HP Procurve 2824...
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