NETWizz
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You might laugh if you knew the shenanigans that is being a Network Architect...
I am doing a change out for ALL network equipment at a site with new Brocade equipment; specifically, ICX 6430-48P, which is the Layer-2 48-Port switches that support POE.
Anyway, there are 13 switches that I am replacing as well as reconfiguring how it connects AND replacing a router.
The router will route for two internal subnets, of course it has a WAN subnet, and it also has two external site subnets (via fiber from one site to another). Anyway, the purpose is to add VoIP supported hardware for eventual VoIP.
Long story short they want everything star wired NOT stacked, which may be a good thing because it is mixed and matched which functional areas are in each wiring closet.
That said it is interesting because I set things up how they were before then get asked to do two-upper and two-lower floors to split the subnets there... fine. I reconfigure all the devices. Then I explain that any statically IP configured printers etc if they are on the wrong subnet after the swap will fail to work. Hence, I configure it back.
I guess it's job security. Overall, it will be very nice when done, but it's funny how much work it is to do and interesting that I cannot make the subnetting nice and clean without re-IPing like 50 printers... screw that!
I am doing a change out for ALL network equipment at a site with new Brocade equipment; specifically, ICX 6430-48P, which is the Layer-2 48-Port switches that support POE.
Anyway, there are 13 switches that I am replacing as well as reconfiguring how it connects AND replacing a router.
The router will route for two internal subnets, of course it has a WAN subnet, and it also has two external site subnets (via fiber from one site to another). Anyway, the purpose is to add VoIP supported hardware for eventual VoIP.
Long story short they want everything star wired NOT stacked, which may be a good thing because it is mixed and matched which functional areas are in each wiring closet.
That said it is interesting because I set things up how they were before then get asked to do two-upper and two-lower floors to split the subnets there... fine. I reconfigure all the devices. Then I explain that any statically IP configured printers etc if they are on the wrong subnet after the swap will fail to work. Hence, I configure it back.
I guess it's job security. Overall, it will be very nice when done, but it's funny how much work it is to do and interesting that I cannot make the subnetting nice and clean without re-IPing like 50 printers... screw that!
