After the lovely long Diamond Jubilee weekend, we returned to our office to find our 3Com managed switch (24 port) had died. We needed a quick 'stop-gap' replacement so I managed to find a local reseller who had a 24port unmanaged switch in stock for a few quid. It has 24x auto-sensing 10/100 ports and 2x gigabit ports.
The 3com model we had was quite an advanced unit that I believe cost in the region of £1000-1500 a few years ago. Although it was managed, we never actually 'logged-in' to make any changes to the config - I think it just self managed itself and seemed to work quite well.
The stop-gap unmanaged is from an unknown manufacturer (to us at any rate), and I wondered how I might test how well it is working for us? If I am sending a DR job to 3 or 4 render nodes for example, with other general network activity going on at the same time, how can I assess how much of a slowdown the unmanaged switch might be causing us?
Any suggestions?
The 3com model we had was quite an advanced unit that I believe cost in the region of £1000-1500 a few years ago. Although it was managed, we never actually 'logged-in' to make any changes to the config - I think it just self managed itself and seemed to work quite well.
The stop-gap unmanaged is from an unknown manufacturer (to us at any rate), and I wondered how I might test how well it is working for us? If I am sending a DR job to 3 or 4 render nodes for example, with other general network activity going on at the same time, how can I assess how much of a slowdown the unmanaged switch might be causing us?
Any suggestions?
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