Hi,
We have a school scenario with two servers with dual port network cards. Hence there are four CAT6 wires from the servers to the classroom network distribution closet.
We have 11 classrooms where we plan 100MBit/s switches with gigabit uplink ports wired to the classroom network distribution closet.
There is also an internet connection wired to the classroom network distribution closet.
We want (of course ;-) as high bandwidth as possible from the classrooms to the servers. Also we NEED to be able to switch on / off the internet connection to each classroom individually.
Would, say, a Linksys SRW2016 in the classroom network distribution closet, be a good solution to connect the classroom switches to the servers? How would this switch handle the server's dual port NIC load balancing?
We need to 'manage' internet access to each classrom. Say we plug in the internet connection into this switch's port 16. Can we then programmatically 'merge' port 16 (internet) with any of the other ports? (Say we want port 16 connected to port 1..6 but not connected to 7..15). How would this be possible?
Thanks a lot for comments on this issue
best regards
Geir