Pictures of my rack..yeah we're talking networking :-)

[Omega]

Holy crap that's a lot of money worth of networking equipment...and probably some overkill, I might add. Three Cisco Catalyst 3100's? I doubt you'll be needing VLAN and ATM support at your LAN. Additionally, why spend so much money on an enterprise switch like that, instead of spending *less* on a 100 Mbps switch?

I can't vouch for the other switches...

Why don't you have them rack-mounted, and running? Even if you're only running a few PCs personally, it'd be 1337 factor ++ to get them all up on a rack...and maybe throw a 4U rackmount server up on there too, just for fun.

Like this one here...that's a nice rack:

Originally Posted by Omega

Holy crap that's a lot of money worth of networking equipment...and probably some overkill, I might add. Three Cisco Catalyst 3100's? I doubt you'll be needing VLAN and ATM support at your LAN. Additionally, why spend so much money on an enterprise switch like that, instead of spending *less* on a 100 Mbps switch?

I can't vouch for the other switches...

Actually, originally I bought 6 3100 series Catalyst switches, I traded them cuz I couldn't use 6x24 ports lol.. I payed $260 for 6 switches thats about $42 a switch, so it wasn't much of a cost issue :P

If you were wondering what I traded for, it was, 3 catalyst 3100's for 1 catalyst matrix, an asus dual p3 board, a p3 600mhz cpu, and 128megs of Rambus.

I don't need to VLAN, but I do use VTP ( trunking is what that cisco matrix is for ) I do use the CLI often on the switches and I'm farily familliar with the catalyst series nowadays. The other devices are not switches, they are both hubs, one is an optical token ring concentrator hub and one is a shnazzy managed hub.

Originally Posted by Omega

Why don't you have them rack-mounted, and running? Even if you're only running a few PCs personally, it'd be 1337 factor ++ to get them all up on a rack...and maybe throw a 4U rackmount server up on there too, just for fun.

Like this one here...that's a nice rack:

that is a nice rack If i could afford a rack, trust me i'd get one I was thinking of getting one of those stacking rackmount boxes for audio rackmount equipment, I can't find the link anymore but they were pretty awesome. I would get a big rack but i'm moving to my grandparents for college soon and I'm not sure how that would fly