On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Don Bowman wrote: > From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Please excuse this, but my experience with them is zilch ... > > am going with > > the HP Procurve 2826(?) Layer2/Layer3 switch, as was > > suggested, but I'm > > curious as to how they work ... > > > > For instance, I know when I setup a router, I have an IN IP > > and an OUT IP > > configured ... but, with a managed switch, what do I have? > > > > For instance, right now, I have a default gateway on the > > providers switch > > of 200.46.204.1 ... and my servers are .2, .3, .4 and .5 ... > > if I put a > > managed switch, vs the unmanaged we have now, between the > > providers switch > > and the servers, does my default route then change to be the switch > > itself? Or is the 'login part' of the switch thought of the > > same way as > > adding just another server to the network, for connectivity purposes? > > > > As I said, stupid question, but for someone whose never played with a > > managed switch before ... :( > > > > Thanks .. > > In layer-2 mode, its nothing but a hub. It doesn't change your > default route or anything. Pretend its not there. > > you will need a router connected to this switch, and its > IP will remain your default route (likely).
'k, but I want to use the managed aspect of it to be able to hard code the port rates (ie. to fix this full-duplex issue initially) as well as be able to access SNMP so that I can do bandwidth monitoring of external traffic ... I have SNMP setup on the FreeBSD boxes right now so that I can see network load per server, but I want to be able to isolate the 'external' traffic from 'internal', by monitoring the specific port that is connected to the providers switch ... So, in both cases, I need to assign an IP somewhere, correct? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
