Re: Seting up a switch

"Tmack" <Terry.McKenna@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
I have a Catalyst 2950 (24 port) that I want to use behind my ISA 2004
firewall.

I'm not sure what my topology should look like.

If I assign an IP to the switch won't that prevent my connection to
the Internet from working ( I couldn't get it to work while plugged
into the switch ).

For example if the IP of my switch is 192.168.1.1 and my static
Internet IP is 216.39.x.x my Internet IP won't route outside of the
192.x.x.x subnet.

I have a SBS 2003 server with 2 NICs, one for the Internet and one for
the internal network.

So any ideas how I should set this up?


First off, a 2950 switch is a pretty basic Layer-2 switch. You seem to
think the switch will do something on the IP layer? The only reason it
has an IP address is for management functions, so you can telnet to it
to monitor/config it, or SNMP off of it, etc.

You'd hook it up like you'd think?

+-----------+ +------+
---------| SBS 2003 |---| 2950 | 192.168.1.0
Ether in +-----------+ +------+
216.39.x.x | |
| +--- Machine 1
+-------- Machine 2


What are you expecting from the switch other than hooking up machines
on the ethernet?
.

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