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PostPosted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 8:34 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-users] [OT] switches Reply with quote

If your phones support PoE,

I have had huge success with Zyxel:
http://www.amazon.com/ZyXEL-ES1100-16P-16-Port-Ethernet-Unmanaged/dp/B00
5GRETMM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1426296572&sr=8-3&keywords=zyxel+poe

If you want to go even cheaper, I have successfully used these as well:
http://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-8-Port-100Mbps-Switch-TPE-S44/dp/B000QYEN
1W/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1426296706&sr=8-10&keywords=poe+8-port


Brian Franklin
NTG, Inc. - "Problem Solved"

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Pardon, this might be off-topic. I'm reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_switch

For a setup of ~5 agents, would I be wrong in thinking that a generic 16
port unmanaged switch would fit the bill?

The first model to come up for me in an Amazon search is:

http://support.netgear.com/product/fs116



Is this a reasonable choice? Would I be wrong in thinking that most any
Fast Ethernet switch would be fine for Asterisk?



thanks,

Thufir


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PostPosted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 10:04 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-users] [OT] switches Reply with quote

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 20:33:13 -0500, Brian Franklin wrote:

Quote:
If your phones support PoE,

I have had huge success with Zyxel:
http://www.amazon.com/ZyXEL-ES1100-16P-16-Port-Ethernet-Unmanaged/dp/B00
5GRETMM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1426296572&sr=8-3&keywords=zyxel+poe

If you want to go even cheaper, I have successfully used these as well:
http://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-8-Port-100Mbps-Switch-TPE-S44/dp/B000QYEN
1W/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1426296706&sr=8-10&keywords=poe+8-port


Brian Franklin NTG, Inc. - "Problem Solved"


This is the router/modem gateway the ISP supplied:

http://www.cisco.com/web/consumer/support/modem_DPC3825.html

When I connect one of these switches to the router, that doesn't create a
double-NAT problem?


thanks,

Thufir


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 5:12 am    Post subject: [asterisk-users] [OT] switches Reply with quote

On 22/03/15 03:03, thufir wrote:
Quote:
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 20:33:13 -0500, Brian Franklin wrote:

Quote:
If your phones support PoE,

I have had huge success with Zyxel:
http://www.amazon.com/ZyXEL-ES1100-16P-16-Port-Ethernet-Unmanaged/dp/B00
5GRETMM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1426296572&sr=8-3&keywords=zyxel+poe

If you want to go even cheaper, I have successfully used these as well:
http://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-8-Port-100Mbps-Switch-TPE-S44/dp/B000QYEN
1W/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1426296706&sr=8-10&keywords=poe+8-port


Brian Franklin NTG, Inc. - "Problem Solved"


This is the router/modem gateway the ISP supplied:

http://www.cisco.com/web/consumer/support/modem_DPC3825.html

When I connect one of these switches to the router, that doesn't create a
double-NAT problem?


No, ethernet switch works at lower / physical / MAC layer, NAT is 'above' that;
so as long as everything is OK with your TCP/IP settings everywhere,
a switch is entirely transparent to TCP/IP (or generally, when it's encapsulated
into MAC traffic).

All that happens at a level totally transparent to the TCP/IP stack

In a way, an Ethernet Switch is /the/ network near you, your cables are 'just' interconnects.

HTH,

el es




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thanks,

Thufir





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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 7:21 am    Post subject: [asterisk-users] [OT] switches Reply with quote

Remember that that zyxel 16 port switch is only 8 poe ports. If your phones are 802.3af or 802.3at, you could look at the ubiquiti line of switches. On Mar 13, 2015 9:34 PM, "Brian Franklin" <bfranklin@ntginc.net (bfranklin@ntginc.net)> wrote:
Quote:
If your phones support PoE,

I have had huge success with Zyxel:
http://www.amazon.com/ZyXEL-ES1100-16P-16-Port-Ethernet-Unmanaged/dp/B00
5GRETMM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1426296572&sr=8-3&keywords=zyxel+poe

If you want to go even cheaper, I have successfully used these as well:
http://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-8-Port-100Mbps-Switch-TPE-S44/dp/B000QYEN
1W/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1426296706&sr=8-10&keywords=poe+8-port


Brian Franklin
NTG, Inc. - "Problem Solved"

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Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 1:58 PM
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Subject: [asterisk-users] [OT] switches

Pardon, this might be off-topic.  I'm reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_switch

For a setup of ~5 agents, would I be wrong in thinking that a generic 16
port unmanaged switch would fit the bill?

The first model to come up for me in an Amazon search is:

http://support.netgear.com/product/fs116



Is this a reasonable choice?  Would I be wrong in thinking that most any
Fast Ethernet switch would be fine for Asterisk?



thanks,

Thufir


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 11:38 am    Post subject: [asterisk-users] [OT] switches Reply with quote

On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:11:54 +0000, Lukasz Sokol wrote:

Quote:
No, ethernet switch works at lower / physical / MAC layer, NAT is
'above'
that;
so as long as everything is OK with your TCP/IP settings everywhere,
a switch is entirely transparent to TCP/IP (or generally, when it's
encapsulated into MAC traffic).


so how does a client pc find the server if there's no NAT? by IP
address?? That makes no sense, to me, if the switch isn't assigning
addresses.


-Thufir


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 11:50 am    Post subject: [asterisk-users] [OT] switches Reply with quote

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so how does a client pc find the server if there's no NAT? by IP
address?? That makes no sense, to me, if the switch isn't assigning
addresses.

Switches have a MAC table that keeps track of which MAC addresses are on which ports. That's how they decide where to route packets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAM_Table
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 12:07 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-users] [OT] switches Reply with quote

On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, thufir wrote:

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so how does a client pc find the server if there's no NAT? by IP
address?? That makes no sense, to me, if the switch isn't assigning
addresses.

The 'endpoint' (pc, softphone, mobile, desk set, etc.) 'finds' the
server's IP address when:

) You configure the endpoint with the IP address or host name of the
server. This happens either by a web page you fill out on the endpoint or
a configuration file that is downloaded by TFTP, FTP, HTTP, etc.

) You configure SRV records in your DNS.

I think the old IAXy did some sort of discovery on port 9999, but I don't
remember if it was device or server discovery.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 12:19 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-users] [OT] switches Reply with quote

On 23/03/15 16:37, thufir wrote:
Quote:
On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:11:54 +0000, Lukasz Sokol wrote:

Quote:
No, ethernet switch works at lower / physical / MAC layer, NAT is
'above'
that;
so as long as everything is OK with your TCP/IP settings everywhere,
a switch is entirely transparent to TCP/IP (or generally, when it's
encapsulated into MAC traffic).


so how does a client pc find the server if there's no NAT? by IP
address?? That makes no sense, to me, if the switch isn't assigning
addresses.


-Thufir


+1 to what Kevin said, and

there is a protocol running on pretty much every ethernet based network,
named ARP : Address Resolution Protocol, by which ALL the clients learn ALL
the surrounding clients (including the one that is the GATEWAY) MAC/IP combinations.

Simplified, the encapsulation of ethernet packets is sort-of

| MAC Header | IP Header | Packet
|[MAC Source address][MAC Destination Address]|[Source IP][Destination IP]|[The rest of packet]

[order and number of fields not necessarily real-life, for illustration purposes only]

now the MAC source/dest fields are added AND REMOVED as needed when the packet passes
from card to computer/router, then from computer/router to card; as the MAC fields don't make sense in
wider area networks;

'dumb' switches don't participate/snoop in ARP, only store a table of what card MAC address they
encountered on source MAC field of packets coming from that interconnect

manageable switches /can/ participate and filter in the ARP process if told so and have such option.

HTH,

el es


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