- Silly question - connecting router to existing switch
- Posted by no-name on June 4th, 2004
a small LAN is wired to a pre-existing switch
one of those cheap ones mentioned in an earlier thread
the 8-port "DabsValue" I think
now broadband Internet is being added to the LAN
by adding a Draytek Vigor 2600 ADSL-modem/router/firewall
warning: there now follows a very silly question
what cable is used to connect the Draytek to the switch
is it an ordinary patch cable -
the same as connects the PC's to the switch ???
or does it have to be a crossover cable ???
- Posted by eusty on June 4th, 2004
no-name wrote:
AFAIK the 2600 doesn't auto sense uplinking, so a *crossover* cable is
needed 
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- Posted by Steven Campbell on June 4th, 2004
"eusty" <steve@eusty_I_DONT_LIKE_SPAM.net> wrote in message
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According to the manual http://www.draytek.co.uk/products/vigor2600plus.html
it is a "Four-Port 10/100BaseT autosensing Ethernet switch"
It doesn't have a dedicated uplink port so wouldn't one of the four ports
autosense the uplink?
curious
Steven.
- Posted by Alien Zord on June 4th, 2004
"no-name" <no-name@false-address.net> wrote in message
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http://www.dabs.com/uk/channels/hard...quicklinx=2J7V
all 8 ports are auto-sensing meaning either cable will work.
- Posted by Tiscali Tim on June 4th, 2004
In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Steven Campbell <spam.all@you.like> wrote:
If it *is* auto-sensing, either will work - it doesn't matter.
How many devices are there in your LAN? Unless you need more than 4 of the 8
ports on your Dabs switch, why not just plug them all into the new router.
It might even be faster unless the PCs only have 10Mbps network cards.
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- Posted by fred bloggs on June 4th, 2004
"no-name" <no-name@false-address.net> wrote in message
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use the same cables as you do to connect your PCs to your existing switch,
or, as Tim suggests connect your PCs directly to the Draytek.
Cheers, Mike
- Posted by Ian on June 4th, 2004
"no-name" <no-name@false-address.net> wrote in message news:<c9oj63$5jt$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk>...
Ah it depends. Does the switch have a port marked uplink ? if not you
will need a crossover normaly, But the draytek site say the ports of
the 2600 will auto sense this and adjust if rquired , so the answer is
proberly no use what ever you want.
Ian
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