Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 01:23:41 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Stupid question about managed switches Message-ID: <20040408011945.S40836@ganymede.hub.org>
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Please excuse this, but my experience with them is zilch ... am going with the HP Procurve 2826(?) Layer2/Layer3 switch, as was suggested, but I'm curious as to how they work ... For instance, I know when I setup a router, I have an IN IP and an OUT IP configured ... but, with a managed switch, what do I have? For instance, right now, I have a default gateway on the providers switch of 200.46.204.1 ... and my servers are .2, .3, .4 and .5 ... if I put a managed switch, vs the unmanaged we have now, between the providers switch and the servers, does my default route then change to be the switch itself? Or is the 'login part' of the switch thought of the same way as adding just another server to the network, for connectivity purposes? As I said, stupid question, but for someone whose never played with a managed switch before ... :( Thanks .. ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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