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Hey guys,
Sometime ago, I acquired two Cisco Catalyst 2948G (L2?) switches. Mind you, I have no prior experience with using Cisco products, but they seem to be working well. They've booted fine and from a PuTTY terminal - all the ports/hardware seem to be okay.
My questions are:
1 - Is it advisable to use these switches in a basic home lab?
2 - How critical are CatOS/IOS upgrades (I think these are CatOS?
)
3 - Are these switches dependent on any other devices (such as a Cisco router?)
4 - Can these be configured via web-browser? (I know some of you are going "lolwut?" right now.)
I know these are probably n00bish questions, but I can't wrap my head around what I can do with these. Most of the info online refers to the L3 version, and even then it's still confusing.
Sometime ago, I acquired two Cisco Catalyst 2948G (L2?) switches. Mind you, I have no prior experience with using Cisco products, but they seem to be working well. They've booted fine and from a PuTTY terminal - all the ports/hardware seem to be okay.
My questions are:
1 - Is it advisable to use these switches in a basic home lab?
2 - How critical are CatOS/IOS upgrades (I think these are CatOS?
)3 - Are these switches dependent on any other devices (such as a Cisco router?)
4 - Can these be configured via web-browser? (I know some of you are going "lolwut?" right now.)
I know these are probably n00bish questions, but I can't wrap my head around what I can do with these. Most of the info online refers to the L3 version, and even then it's still confusing.