All of the traffic pretty much will be passing over the router. I see the wisdom of what you are saying with redesigning the network and I will give it some thought, but the majority of the resources are located in one spot. I will mull that over though. As it stands, only some students doing filesharing would not pass the router.
I am liking the VLAN concept more and more for the less active segments. The whole thing has to fit into the budget. We have a few Cisco 3500XL switches that I think support VLAN, so I could task one of those to the job probably. After Henning pointed out to me with the SK cards I don't need to go the route of the quad, I am planning on the SK dual port cards. http://www.syskonnect.com/products/sk-9s22.htm - but when I searched it seems like the .2 revs are becoming hard to find and the .3 is unsupported. Phooey On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 19:12:29 +0200 Alexander Bochmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > ...on Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:50:20AM -0400, Bill Chmura wrote: > > > Ethernet wise, currently the whole mess is at 100MB... It will be that > > way at least for 12 months after this. As far as heavily used, I just > > got on the scene myself and the usage is way down. School, summers > > off. But the end of the year is crazy for them network wise. So in > > the end, all I can say at this point is that its barely running at peak > > usage on 100MB. > > As others suggested, getting a decent switch with VLAN > support and using a single GigE trunk to you router > might be a good start (and even cheaper as a bunch > of 4-port GigE cards). I don't think you will run into > bandwidth problems on the trunk if everything is at > 100mbit now, and you will just have much more flexibility > with the segmentation. You can still push high-volume > VLANs to another trunk port (or dedicated links to the > router) later, if that turns out to be neccessary. > > Also, will all the traffic really pass the router, > or will much of it be local to the respective segments? > Thinking about how to redesign the network to reduce > the load on the router might be a good idea. > > Alex. > -- Bill Chmura Director of Internet Technology Explosivo ITG Wolcott, CT p: 860.621.8693 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w. http://www.explosivo.com
