packet monitoring/viewing on *all* ports like "dumb-hub" My understanding is I would need a switch that does port duplication?
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if you dont mind some latency on your network you can - tell all other connected devices to use your 'monitoring pc' IP as the gateway IP - set your 'monitoring pc' to use the real gateway IP - enable IP forwarding on your 'monitoring pc'
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This switch has 20 ports. Typically you would only have 1 port connected to a router, the other 19 would go to end devices or other switches. Why do you want two connections from a router to the same switch? Type would seem to cause problems in the routing tables.
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No, you can test through a patch panel, but a switch is looking for packet info and isn't a straight through path on the cables.
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There are jumpers on the board to configure any combination of two active ports. So yes, you can have one of each.
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You can use any port, this switch is brainless and does not manage any on the traffic flow.
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This item isn't a hub it is a switch and is used differently. Example... You run a long cat5 cable to your media room. You now have 1 connection, but you have 4 items to connect to the internet. So, you buy this switch. connect it to your 1 cable run and now you have 4 ports that can all use that 1 run of cat5.
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I am not sure what you mean by "double teaming". We had no difficulty teaming two of these NICs. (2012 Server)
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To my knowledge, there is only one port. Since I never had the need nor interest in looking further, I cannot be certain. devh devh
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It has a port forwarding configuration, but I haven't been able to get it to work. I haven't tried all that hard, though.
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You could load balance traffic and provide redundancy using two switches. In case of vmware load balancing traffic is critical.
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This is an "unmanaged" switch so each desktop you wire into this switch will each get their own fair share of the upstream bandwidth depending on what each Desktop is doing. To do Quality of Service (QoS) which is what you are asking about you'll need a more advanced "managed" switch (or router/switch) that costs quite a bit more money and allows you to limit a given port's bandwidth.
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You can see all the computers - regardless of which network they come in on. But I cannot see how to monitor each network individually.
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What would be the purpose for doing that? I can only think that maybe the modem and the router are so far apart (over 300 feet) that you need a switch to repeat the signal between them? Does the wireless router have multiple switch ports? You can just chain this switch to a switch port (not the WAN port) on a router to add more ports/jacks for local devices (although even that occupies two ports - one from the router, and one from this extra switch).
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The only reason I can possibly think they different QoS ports would be needed is if you have a VoIP data running through this switch and at any given time all the ports exceed 1 gigabit/sec. That being said, it's very unlikely that as a home user you won't need to worry about such a thing. If you want to be safe though, just use the high priority to your router as that is where all traffic is truncated to. It's more of a sales gimmick but for 8 ports at this price, it's a neat added bonus.
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These are smart switches to do some light management of the ports, but it does not perform as a DHCP server. Some of the multi-thousand dollar Cisco switches will, but I don't know what good that would do in a smaller environment where you typically need a router anyway to get traffic to the internet.
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This product usually works fine with a switch.By default, it does some sort of NAT, so there should be no problem with most DHCP servers, and each device will get its own IP.You can also set it to MAC cloning mode if you do get DHCP errors, but then it will no longer be able to work with the switch.
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Yes as this is an unmanaged switch just think of it as an ethernet splitter