Living in the US, I'm a bit jealous of the 100mbit upload...
If you're in a Fios area, Verizon's running a deal on 940/880 Mbps right now for $74.99.
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
> when assignments are due, we often run out of ethernet cables. I had just mentioned I would bring a switch with me the next day As I understand it, a switch will solve a shortage of ethernet ports, but will make the cable problem worse by requiring one extra cable. What's the purpose of the switch here?
switches route traffic to other machines on the same switch lowering network congestion between those machines and the rest of the network right ?
Yes. They also minimize the broadcast storm domain.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Being a little pedandic here aren't we? For all intents and purposes a bridge is basically a switch with two ports. At the end of the day this is running on a Linux kernel so it can basically be any networking device you want it to be, even a router.
Or an extension repeater adapter?
No, even a two-port bridge is smarter than physical extension/repeater. I.e. the bridge will not forward ethernet frames to the other port if the destination if assumed to be in the originating network segment.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
> when assignments are due, we often run out of ethernet cables. I had just mentioned I would bring a switch with me the next day As I understand it, a switch will solve a shortage of ethernet ports, but will make the cable problem worse by requiring one extra cable. What's the purpose of the switch here?
I think they mean out of ethernet-cables-that-are-usable-to-get-network-access. So there's loose cables aplenty, but a shortage of cables that work in the sense of the far end being plugged in, due to a shortage of ports. From the perspective of a student walking into the room with their laptop, that's a shortage of cable-ends that they can plug into their laptop to gain network access.
Either way, I'm surprised port security isn't enabled in an educational environment like this.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
switches route traffic to other machines on the same switch lowering network congestion between those machines and the rest of the network right ?
Yes. They also minimize the broadcast storm domain.
...no they don't. STP will help prevent broadcast storms, but a switch does nothing in and of itself to stop them.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they mean out of ethernet-cables-that-are-usable-to-get-network-access. So there's loose cables aplenty, but a shortage of cables that work in the sense of the far end being plugged in, due to a shortage of ports. From the perspective of a student walking into the room with their laptop, that's a shortage of cable-ends that they can plug into their laptop to gain network access.
Either way, I'm surprised port security isn't enabled in an educational environment like this.
It probably is and they just don't know or the policy is lax enough to allow it but triggers an alarm in OIT.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they mean out of ethernet-cables-that-are-usable-to-get-network-access. So there's loose cables aplenty, but a shortage of cables that work in the sense of the far end being plugged in, due to a shortage of ports. From the perspective of a student walking into the room with their laptop, that's a shortage of cable-ends that they can plug into their laptop to gain network access.
Either way, I'm surprised port security isn't enabled in an educational environment like this.
Why should it be, or even be detectable if OP attaches a switch? Afaik, those don't even have different MACs and even if they do, it is unlikely that the university has all the students laptops MACs.
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#78Living in the US, I'm a bit jealous of the 100mbit upload...
US is weirdly bipolar when it comes to internet. In some areas, you can barely get a DSL connection from a single ISP, and it will be some astronomical price of like $70+/mo (if you are lucky). If you don't like it, suck it up, because you have no other providers servicing your area. In others, you have like 4-5 ISPs, all offering fiber and at reasonable prices.
It definitely feels like it is getting better, though. Moved to Seattle and am happily paying ~$40/mo for symmetrical non-capped 1Gb fiber (both up and down). Even my family still living in suburban GA (way outside of the perimeter, not some within-the-city suburb) got fiber recently, and at a fairly ok price for the area (tho definitely way more expensive than $40/mo, and they only have a choice between Comcast and AT&T, unfortunately).
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Either way, I'm surprised port security isn't enabled in an educational environment like this.
Why should it be, or even be detectable if OP attaches a switch? Afaik, those don't even have different MACs and even if they do, it is unlikely that the university has all the students laptops MACs.
Switches have MAC addresses.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd presume anyone bringing a network switch with them to class would also have some Cat5e kicking around. Otherwise, what good is the switch doing them?
So bringing a switch solved the cable problem because the cables were in the same box?
Sure? lol