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How many switches for a small network?

Kimchi — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:20:05 +0000

im designing a network for a small business. There are three departments in the business retail sales – 80 employees, sale support – 10 employees, accounts – 15 employees. I’ve decided to use star topology. It will have one router connecting to many switches. I was thinking of using multiple 48 port switches. Would it be good to have one switch for each department or otherwise and how many switch should i use. The business is expecting expansion in the next five years. Thanks

Setting up a small network – I have a 16 port switch all computers are accessing the internet through.

BroDo — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:34:40 +0000

Setting up a small network – I have a 16 port switch all computers are accessing the internet through. Can I set up a network on this configuration as is?

Cisco 3750-E factory reset doesn’t reset buffer allocation ??

Kompost — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:59:51 +0000

I have a number of ‘identical’ 3750-E 48 port switches, running same IOS version 12.2.44. We’ve reset the switches to factory defaults (erase start-config; delete flash:vlan.dat; reload) and tried to allocate the max of big buffers (buffers big permanent 20480). On some of the switches this succeeds, on others we can only allocate somewhat more than 3K buffers. Any idea what may be the cause of this and how to trace it ?

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