How to/what needed

[ImBurrMan]

Hello, please bare with me and my lack of knowledge.

I have an SA 500 with the optional port configued as the DMZ. The LAN ports are running the 192 range and the DMZ is the 172 range.

I have seperate offices (A few hundred feet apart) that have been connected  with 2 unmanaged switches uplinked with a single wire. The 192 range stuff runs over this. I need to get the DMZ out to the second room and was asking about how to do this over the single uplink and switches. (Trying not to run a second wire)

My lack of understanding had me draw up this diagram attached as a picture, to ask about. What it shows is me trying to get the DMZ through the uplinked switches to the other room. I thought of using 2 routers, one on each end. I've been told this is incorrect and wont work.

Maybe a purchase of a second hardware and eliminate the switches? (uplink the SA 500 to another device?) What should that device be?

I would appreciate any comment on this. Thanks, Burr            

[Elton Babcock]

Yes you would need 2 managed switches. One for your devices in the data center and 1 in the office.

As for the 2950 switches, they are still used today in many networks and are very capable. You can get a basic 2960 24 port switch for around 500 I believe. I personally would go Cisco over Dell but that's totally up to you

As long as the switch supports VLANs and VLAN trunking it will work.

Also be aware of distance between switches. It should be 100 meters or less.

Elton

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[ImBurrMan]

Very good Elton. Just did some looking at the older switches and probably should stay away from those as "command line" confguration. I need the GUI! (Thats the dumbing it down part).

I'll do some reasearch on the switches.

Again, thanks for the help today. Really got me going.

[Elton Babcock]

No problem at all. I have used the Dell switches before and the GUI was pretty easy to work with.

Please let us know how it works out for you and if you need any help.

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Thanks and take care,

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[ImBurrMan]

I think I found these to do what we talked about:

Small Business 300 Series Managed Switch SG300-10

A small 10 ports (Which I can expand on either end with unmanaged switches)

They have some with a "P" and a "PM" after it, whcih I cant see what the differences are, but each letter seems to add $100.00 to the price.

I'll put some calls in tommorow to see if I can get confirmation on which/if these will work best.

[Elton Babcock · Accepted solution]

That switch should do what you need. The "p" at the end of the name stands for PoE which you don't need if you don't need to power devices from the switch.

Elton

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