Advice on wireless switching/routing and HP Procurve 2510G purchase?
Hi, I’m thinking of purchasing the above model of intelligent switch(partly on monetary factors) for our network and I would appreciate any advice. I understand different Switches have different attributes such as layer 2 and layer 3 swicthing/routing . Also some work symmetrically/asymetrically (ports connect at different connection speeds or not?). Any further advice would [...]

Answer Question   |  August 26, 2010  10:21 AM
HP ProCurve, HP ProCurve 2510g, Managed Switches, Networking hardware, Switches, Wireless in 2010, Wireless router configuration, Wireless routers

Using VLANs so segregate traffic with machines with identical IP address
I am a newbie: I have four boxes A1,A2,A3,A4 that need to communicate with 4 other boxes B1,B2,B3,B4 with these “permutations”: A1 needs to communicate with B1,B2,B3,B4 A2 needs to communicate with B1,B2,B3,B4 A3 needs to communicate with B1,B2,B3,B4 A4 needs to communicate with B1,B2,B3,B4 For technical reasons A1,A2,A3,A4 have the same IP addresses (and [...]

Answer Question   |  July 28, 2009  8:47 PM
IP address, Managed Switches, VLAN, VLAN Setup

Managed and Unmanaged Switch
Hi, can someone tell me what the difference is between unmanaged and managed switch please?

Answer Question   |  July 29, 2009  11:29 AM
Managed Switches, Networking Equipment, Switches, Unmanaged Switches

Weird sharing problem in LAN after upgrading switch
Hi, first sorry for my bad English. Recently my company did a network upgrading (changing several units of old unmanaged 100mbps switch to a new managed 1gbps one, and do a correct new backbone cabling to avoid looping coz old cabling is a total mess). Everything went fine for a while. Then suddenly a week [...]

Answer Question   |  February 5, 2009  3:48 AM
LAN, Linux servers, Managed Switches, Network administration, Network upgrades and patches, Switch configuration, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP

Network design
our new office has 5 rooms each room had a a patchpanel where all the lan points in that room are terminated. I am planning to put a managed switch in each of thoose 5 places, this will be connected to the main server room thru 5 fiber channels. My doubt may sound silly .. [...]

Answer Question   |  September 19, 2008  9:43 PM
LAN port, Managed Switches, Network design, Patch panels, Switches

48port switch
Which one is best for functionality of 24port managed switch or 48port managed switch

Answer Question   |  November 9, 2012  6:51 AM
Managed Switches, Switches

Difference between Managed and Unmanage Switches
PL. Explin the difference with applicable areas for both and implications including cost.

Answer Question   |  June 10, 2008  7:18 AM
Managed Switches, Switches, Unmanaged Switches