Re: Gigabit GBIC for 3550 [7:42680]

2002-04-26 Thread Chuck
I've had to do a bit of reading on this myself lately. Recently several engineers at my place of employment were yakking about this and there is a lot of mis-information and misunderstanding. none of us really understood how the gigastack worked. check out the following link: http://www.cisco.com

Re: Gigabit GBIC for 3550 [7:42680]

2002-04-26 Thread MADMAN
I think the answer is in here: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/si/casi/ca3500xl/prodlit/gbic_ds.htm Dave Brian Zeitz wrote: > > If I wanted to connect 2 Cisco 3550 switches together, would I need 1 > Gigabit stacking GBIC or 2? I think I need 2 of them. I am trying to > find out exact

Re: Gigabit GBIC for 3550 [7:42680]

2002-04-26 Thread Chuck
do great minds think alike, or what ;-> ( see my response to the same question ) Chuck P.S. happy Friday, everyone. ""MADMAN"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I think the answer is in here: > > http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/si/casi/ca3500xl/prodli

Re: Gigabit GBIC for 3550 [7:42680]

2002-04-26 Thread Steven A. Ridder
Can a FastEthernet port of a router trunk 150-200 devices spread out over a few VLAN's? I'm going to assume yes, but at what point to you have to go router on a blade, generally speaking. -- RFC 1149 Compliant. Get in my head: http://sar.dynu.com ""MADMAN"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gigabit GBIC for 3550 [7:42680]

2002-04-26 Thread Tim Potier
What kind of router? What kind of traffic? I have installed quite a few 2621's doing trunking on FA0/0 (dot1q) for inter-vlan routing with client numbers in the range you refer to. Mainly IP traffic, some limited IPX. Hope this helps. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.ph

RE: Gigabit GBIC for 3550 [7:42680]

2002-04-26 Thread Rik Guyler
Geez...all you guys had to do was ask! ;-} Rik -Original Message- From: Chuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 5:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Gigabit GBIC for 3550 [7:42680] do great minds think alike, or what ;-> ( see my response to the s

Re: Gigabit GBIC for 3550 [7:42680]

2002-04-26 Thread MADMAN
Not to be evasive but it depends. In some scenerios 150 heavy users could kill the router but then again if the users are using simple keystroke, screen update type apps then a couple hundred would be no problem. Dave "Steven A. Ridder" wrote: > Can a FastEthernet port of a router trunk 150-

Re: Gigabit GBIC for 3550 [7:42680]

2002-04-27 Thread Steven A. Ridder
After checking out the link, it says the GigaStack can stack up to nine switches, but dosen't that destroy STP, as it has a 7 hop max? -- RFC 1149 Compliant. Get in my head: http://sar.dynu.com ""MADMAN"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I think the answer is in

Re: Gigabit GBIC for 3550 [7:42680]

2002-04-27 Thread Chuck
interesting question, Steve. I had been under the impression that the software treated the stack as a single entity, thus making STP irrelevant, but in re-reading, I see that is for management purposes. Can't find anything in the documentation that I browsed. I'm curious because this is something

Re: Gigabit GBIC for 3550 [7:42680]

2002-04-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
k engineer. Use the 3550 for testing.. Theo, CSS1, CCNP "Chuck" Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/28/2002 01:37 AM Please respond to "Chuck" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Gigabit GBIC for 3550 [7:42680] interesting questio