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I am currently in a situation where It's my job to admin a network of >256 members. Granted I inherited this mess trying to untangle is impossible. At this point it's so fargone nothing short of a complete teardown and rebuild will fix it.
A terrible network sin was commited. When they needed to add a printer, another user, etc. They would send someone to Circuit City and pick up a 5 port SOHO switch and "expand" the network, (I am trying to figure out the Einstein who thought it was a good idea). Now there are tens of them scattered and hidden about the manufacturing floor and offices.
Now if you think that's OK I can tell you simply it's not as easy as an electrical circuit that you can just daisy chain another extesion cord to make more outlets. That seems to be the logic that was used here. One of those 5port beauties failed yesterday and it was incredibly hard to find, it was tucked away in dark corner ans causing some bizzare problems.
So here's my point: Take some time to actually learn about TCP/IP. My goodnness that's one of our major tools on here, master it. There are plenty of free resources to teach you and courses and reference material posted for downloading. Pretty soon our whole world will revolve around Internet transactions. Master them and you will be invaluable.
I am just starting this thread. Please feel free to ask questions or add as you see fit.
I was fortunate to have had a job where all we did was architech complex and secure systems for all kinds of industries. I learned a great deal over those years from some Cisco advanced educated engineers. It's definately worth some time learning all about it.
A terrible network sin was commited. When they needed to add a printer, another user, etc. They would send someone to Circuit City and pick up a 5 port SOHO switch and "expand" the network, (I am trying to figure out the Einstein who thought it was a good idea). Now there are tens of them scattered and hidden about the manufacturing floor and offices.
Now if you think that's OK I can tell you simply it's not as easy as an electrical circuit that you can just daisy chain another extesion cord to make more outlets. That seems to be the logic that was used here. One of those 5port beauties failed yesterday and it was incredibly hard to find, it was tucked away in dark corner ans causing some bizzare problems.
So here's my point: Take some time to actually learn about TCP/IP. My goodnness that's one of our major tools on here, master it. There are plenty of free resources to teach you and courses and reference material posted for downloading. Pretty soon our whole world will revolve around Internet transactions. Master them and you will be invaluable.
I am just starting this thread. Please feel free to ask questions or add as you see fit.
I was fortunate to have had a job where all we did was architech complex and secure systems for all kinds of industries. I learned a great deal over those years from some Cisco advanced educated engineers. It's definately worth some time learning all about it.
