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I am an IT Tech for a company, just took it over about 8 months ago. The company has 3 locations, a main office and two satellite offices that are connected by sonic firewalls. The sonic firewalls were put in by one IT company. A company previous to that one setup the main branch where the servers are and have two 3550 catalyst switches. No documentation was left behind on the switches and very little on the rest of the network (although I can get into the Sonic Firewalls). One of the switches went down after a thunderstorm and power outage. When the switch got power again every light on it lit up and it was not moving any traffic. When you would plug/unplug cables into the switch the lights stayed on. Not a lot of experience with Cisco but it seems fried to me. The other switch is fine.
I put a temp switch (dumb switch) in place until I decided what to do permanently. The problem is the Cisco switch have been setup for multiple Vlans but I can't log into it to look at how it was setup (the other one seems to be fried so I can't look in that one either) and some of the devices/servers that are now on the dumb switch are not working. The thing that is most annoying is that most of the setup for this company was overly complex for what they had. Were talking at the most, 40 devices between all three companies yet it seems that there are at least 6 vlans setup in just the one main branch (kill me please). The other two branches are using just one IP scheme.
in the main branch
10.0.14.0-254
10.0.15.0-254
10.0.11.0-254
10.0.85.0-254
10.0.5.0-254
10.1.10.1
and I am sure there is more
I am thinking about getting a lower end managed switch by Netgear or Dlink. We can't spend the money to get a Cisco Managed switched, nor do we need to as far as I am concerned.
Will I be able to get the Netgear or Dlink to work with the Cisco, Should I scrap the 2nd Cisco, get two new switches and start simplifying the network. I still can't figure out why they did what they did except that they wanted to bill the hell out of this client (They are still paying on the original job which was done 4.5 years ago)
On a side note, the have 4 standard 2003 servers all doing separate function, was considering just one bad ass SBS 2011 server which could consolidate all functions into one server
ex. One standard server 2003 is the domain controller/file server, one server is running exchange 2003, one server was an SQL server for software that they don't use anymore, the 4th sever would stay because it's specifically setup for software that they still are using (also running 2003 standard)
Will be happy to give additional info to better explain my problem
I put a temp switch (dumb switch) in place until I decided what to do permanently. The problem is the Cisco switch have been setup for multiple Vlans but I can't log into it to look at how it was setup (the other one seems to be fried so I can't look in that one either) and some of the devices/servers that are now on the dumb switch are not working. The thing that is most annoying is that most of the setup for this company was overly complex for what they had. Were talking at the most, 40 devices between all three companies yet it seems that there are at least 6 vlans setup in just the one main branch (kill me please). The other two branches are using just one IP scheme.
in the main branch
10.0.14.0-254
10.0.15.0-254
10.0.11.0-254
10.0.85.0-254
10.0.5.0-254
10.1.10.1
and I am sure there is more
I am thinking about getting a lower end managed switch by Netgear or Dlink. We can't spend the money to get a Cisco Managed switched, nor do we need to as far as I am concerned.
Will I be able to get the Netgear or Dlink to work with the Cisco, Should I scrap the 2nd Cisco, get two new switches and start simplifying the network. I still can't figure out why they did what they did except that they wanted to bill the hell out of this client (They are still paying on the original job which was done 4.5 years ago)
On a side note, the have 4 standard 2003 servers all doing separate function, was considering just one bad ass SBS 2011 server which could consolidate all functions into one server
ex. One standard server 2003 is the domain controller/file server, one server is running exchange 2003, one server was an SQL server for software that they don't use anymore, the 4th sever would stay because it's specifically setup for software that they still are using (also running 2003 standard)
Will be happy to give additional info to better explain my problem