Re: Switch recommendations

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Jamie Hushower wrote:

> I have been using a Netgear FS750T at a client site for about 4 months without
> a hiccup. I recommend it.
>
> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=862230

Okay, those specs just confused the hell out of me, so perhaps some of our
resident network gurus can set me straight. It says that it supports only two
port-based VLANs, which to me, says that untagged frames will be tagged
automatically based on point of ingress (VLAN 1 on ports 1 - 24, and VLAN 2 on
ports 25 - 50).

Beyond that it supports 64 static VLAN groups, which means what? I understand
that a lot of switches/routers can only handle n number of active VLANs, but
TCI format gives twelve bits for the ID. Does "static" infer that instead of
supporting 64 arbitrary IDs from a range of 1 - 4094 it only allows you to
choose from 1 - 64? And if there are only two PVIDs does this mean that
they're relying on host-side intelligence to discard frames from VLAN IDs
they're not listening specifically for?

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Received on Thu Aug 25 08:48:06 2005