<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">We were setting up vlans, but we could only get a particular subnet to talk to itself. we had no ip packet forwarding in the layer 3 switch between subnets...which is what a router is supposed to do.<br><div> </div><span style="font-family:comic sans ms;">Richard Hubbard </span><br>ATTO Technology Inc<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Darin Perusich <Darin.Perusich@cognigencorp.com><br>To: nflug@nflug.org<br>Sent: Wednesday, July 9, 2008 8:25:30 AM<br>Subject: Re: [nflug] Routers switches and the urge to get very vocal with a Dell tech support rep<br><br>I'm not sure about Dell switchs but I need to
configure VLAN's on my <br>3com switches to segment the various subnets. Have you tried this?<br><br>Richard Hubbard wrote:<br>> A number of months ago, I purchased a Dell 6224, layer 3 switch, with <br>> the idea of using it to break my 150+ machine network into subnets, <br>> primarily so that some tech in a lab wouldn't shut down the network with <br>> a broadcast storm.<br>> <br>> According to Dell, this is what I should be able to do.<br>> <br>> According to me, every set of instructions we got to do a simple "break <br>> your network into 8 IP subnets" has not worked.<br>> <br>> Which brings up 3 possible solutions<br>> 1. Beat a Dell rep with a stick until he gets an engineer who is not <br>> doing a visual inspection of his own lower intestine.<br>> 2. Bite the bullet, and get recommendations for something that is <br>> advertised as a "real router". Gigabit ethernet is a requirement.<br>> 3. Build
a cheap box and make a router using linux.<br>> <br>> Any advice with the above would be helpful. Specifically regarding 2 <br>> (What can I get that is inexpensive, does Gigabit ethernet, and doesn't <br>> necessarily include a bunch of crap I don't want, like ISDN, firewalls, <br>> proxys, etc), or 3 (Inexpensive motherboards/rack mounts/PCIe Network <br>> cards, etc).<br>> One thing I am curious about, I seem to remember from long long ago, <br>> that linux only supported 4 network cards. Is this the case for real, or <br>> just a bad memory?<br>> <br>> Thanks!<br>> <br>> <span style="font-family:comic sans ms;">Richard Hubbard </span><br>> ATTO Technology Inc<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> nflug mailing list<br>> <a
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