jamie2497

Hi all, I'm currently in the middle of breaking our allocated IP range down into VLANs/Subnets and had a question as to whether county would need to set up routes back to the core switch. Range allocated is x.x.8.0/21 and i'm breaking it up into various /24 and /25 Clients will have a default gateway of the VLAN and the Core switch will have a default gateway of the county router and I believe the county router interface is the first IP address in our range (x.x.8.1). Will I need to get them set up routes on the router to all of our VLANs eg. if the core IP on the x.x.8.0 is x.x.8.254: x.x.8.0/24 > x.x.8.254 x.x.9.0/25 > x.x.8.254 x.x.9.128/25 > x.x.8.254 etc etc. Cheers

The fibre modules only have 4 ports anyway so we wouldn't gain any extra ports I'm guessing it'll just be a simple case of removing the modules from the 4204 and sticking them in the 4208?

The 4208 with a couple of fibre modules would be plenty, we only really need an extra 2 fibre ports but i've specced up a second module for further expansion. I think i'll go for the 4208, save any possible bottlenecks. Thanks very much for your help.

Thanks for the reply fiifighterjim. As much as i'd love to upgrade to a better model our senior leadership don't even realise it's going to cost them more than just man hours to move the PCs! Really we need to keep our existing modules and either move them to a 4208 and add some more fibre modules or stack it with another 4204. Do you reckon its worth going for the 4208 for an extra £500? Many thanks Edit FN-GM - The new room is actually an entirely separate building with no feed at all apart from a single cat cable going over the roof (Its one of those green hut cardboard style buildings!)

Hey guys, We're currently running a HP 4204 vl switch chasis with 3 fibre modules and 1 20port/4 gbic module. All of the fibre ports are in use so for the odd link we've had to use fibre converters (not ideal!), however the college has decided to move one of the IT suites to a room with no network access. Rather than running over 30 machines on a fibre converter we are looking at adding to the core switch. My question is, is it better to upgrade our HP 4204 to a 4208 for more modules or to buy another HP 4204 and link the two with a fibre cable. It would cost around £500 extra to upgrade to the 4208. Many thanks