New Small Business Network Setup Help!

[Th3Architect]

Hi Guys,

 

Just need a network guru to take a look at this setup, will the quad lagg be effective in this setup and will it all be running sweet.

 

Thanks

 

[upliftsleet1974]

This needs to be Linus's new office.

 

My hope is in some strange way it turns out it is

[costin.buga]

I'm guessing you'll be working a lot with the nas server.

I doubt you need 4G uplinks between switches, but being in the same office you will probably use cat5 cable and won't cost much.

You should setup as Cacti server and add the switches with SNMP so you can monitor the network and spot any potential bottlenecks or faulty links.

[SOUTHwarrior]

What brand of switches are you using?

[Th3Architect]

I'm guessing you'll be working a lot with the nas server.

I doubt you need 4G uplinks between switches, but being in the same office you will probably use cat5 cable and won't cost much.

You should setup as Cacti server and add the switches with SNMP so you can monitor the network and spot any potential bottlenecks or faulty links.

 

Hi costin, the idea is to use cat5e and yh we will be accessing the server a lot...

 

 

What brand of switches are you using?

 

I plan on using Netgear managed switches, unless anyone has better suggestions?... 

[Th3Architect]

Also added in 4 more laptop bays to the left of the open air test bench 

[costin.buga]

I never used netgear so idk how they are.

The cheapest gigabit managed switches i use are zyxel gs series and they are ok.

If it wore up to me and not thinking of the budget, i'd use cisco 2960g or 3560g

[Th3Architect]

I never used netgear so idk how they are.

The cheapest gigabit managed switches i use are zyxel gs series and they are ok.

If it wore up to me and not thinking of the budget, i'd use cisco 2960g or 3560g

 

Went for these in the end - http://www.scan.co.uk/products/24-port-netgear-gs724t-prosafe-gigabit-10-1000-smart-network-switch

 

 

[costin.buga]

Went for these in the end - http://www.scan.co.uk/products/24-port-netgear-gs724t-prosafe-gigabit-10-1000-smart-network-switch

Can you aggregate ports on them ?

[Th3Architect]

Can you aggregate ports on them ?

 

Yes it supports 802 ad which is LACP Link aggregation

[DanTheMuffinMan]

Sorry, Networking Student here, what's a Quad LAGG, feel like that's something I should know and Google was not very helpful...

[markes12344]

Sorry, Networking Student here, what's a Quad LAGG, feel like that's something I should know and Google was not very helpful...

a quad lagg is when you connect one switch to another with multiple network cables, in this case 4 cables between the switches. this will increase bandwidth. as its 4 cables transferring data over one. 

[Blade of Grass]

Sorry, Networking Student here, what's a Quad LAGG, feel like that's something I should know and Google was not very helpful...

He just means link aggregation, LAGG is a BSD package that allows you to do it.

The protocol for it that you're most likely familiar with is probably LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol).

[Darren]

Could you not just get a single 48 port switch? That would at least remove the need to have Quad-LAGG between the two 24 port switches...

[costin.buga]

Could you not just get a single 48 port switch? That would at least remove the need to have Quad-LAGG between the two 24 port switches...

He could have a large office and its hard to get all the cables in the same spot.

[DanTheMuffinMan]

He just means link aggregation, LAGG is a BSD package that allows you to do it.

The protocol for it that you're most likely familiar with is probably LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol).

 

 

a quad lagg is when you connect one switch to another with multiple network cables, in this case 4 cables between the switches. this will increase bandwidth. as its 4 cables transferring data over one. 

 

 

Ahhh, yeah we were calling that Link Aggregation or multi-trunking. Thanks guys.

 

We've configured switches in general, but never for Link Aggregation, hopefully they'll cover that and LAGG/LACP in my final year. Thanks again.

[Th3Architect]

He could have a large office and its hard to get all the cables in the same spot.

 

Correct, my original plan had a 48 port switch, but the layout of the office made it much more difficult

 

He just means link aggregation, LAGG is a BSD package that allows you to do it.

The protocol for it that you're most likely familiar with is probably LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol).

 

Thanks for clearing that up Blade of Grass - I'm pretty new to networking so this will be my first time using Link Aggregation, I've read up a lot about it so hopefully this will be a successful venture  :huh: