korym
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Richmond, VA
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| Looking for a switch - advice?
Howdy all. I've been ripping apart the school network this summer now that I have a whole summer to do exactly that (really rushed things through last summer since I came in fairly late).
That being said, the workstations in the library have been running on a separate subnet than where our domain controller/active directory server is. This is causing various conflicts. So, I've put the workstations on the same subnet as the server and am now successfully receiving GPO updates. Fortunately, the other subnet is used for student-owned laptops on dorm which aren't connected to the AD network (they're still a/v-protected, however).
So, now I'm looking for a 24-port switch for the library that needs to have ACL capabilities in order to shut the ports off automatically once a day for study hall time in there.
The newer Catalysts will do that but I have a budget crunch I need to watch out for not to mention I don't have a lot of time to focus on Cisco's CLI. 
If anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate any and all input.
Thx much.
Regards,
Kory
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lutful
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join:2005-06-16
Ottawa, ON
 ·TekSavvy Solutions..
| IMHO, Planet is making some really good and inexpensive stuff. They have a US sales office you can call.
»www.planet.com.tw/product/produc···enu_id=1
Unlike other far-east companies, they even engaged someone who knows English to write the datasheets. 
"PLANET WGSW-24000 offers comprehensive Access Control List (ACL) for enforcing security to the edge. Its protection mechanisms comprised of port-based 802.1x user and device authentication. The administrators can now construct highly secured corporate networks with time and effort considerably less then before." |
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jarosoup
join:2003-01-14
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Netgear also has some affordable yet capable managed switches. We've had good luck with the FSM726 we bought a year or 2 ago (it is a layer 2 managed switch). |
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Anav
Sarcastic Llama? Naw, Just Acerbic
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join:2001-07-16
Dartmouth, NS
| The ES-3124 from ZyXEL is on promotion this month, quite a capable switch.
»us.zyxel.com/web/product_family_···6979B2D5
I am not sure about switches and ACL controls over specific time periods, thought scheduling was more prevalent on routers.... |
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korym
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ExMod 1999-03
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Richmond, VA
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1 edit | Don't need to schedule the entire network since I have servers that need to stay up 24/7. But that unit looks like it might do the job. The Planet switch might be a contender too. Netgear doesn't have ACL capabilities, from what I understand.
Thx much!
Regards,
Kory
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lutful
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join:2005-06-16
Ottawa, ON | reply to korym
Both Zyxel and Planet support 802.1x authentication so you can use an external Radius server to do elaborate scheduling. |
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flaughs2000
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East Freedom, PA
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Kory,
I am sure you can to that with active directory and a GPO I know for sure you can limit the login hours for a user so I am sure you can do the same for a computer if you want me to I can look into this a bit and get back to you.
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korym
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Richmond, VA
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| said by flaughs2000  :I am sure you can to that with active directory and a GPO I know for sure you can limit the login hours for a user so I am sure you can do the same for a computer if you want me to I can look into this a bit and get back to you. Actually, that's an excellent point, flaughs!  Didn't even think of that with everything I have going on in my head right now. Instead of being user-based, I'll see if I can do that from a workstation perspective. I'm sure it's possible.
Thx much for the idea!
Regards,
Kory
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bito
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join:2001-10-08
Atlanta, GA | Or you could just get one of those power supply timers (for lamps and stuff) that powers down and up at the scheduled times. No switch, no data |
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korym
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Richmond, VA
clubs: | Did that. Fried a consumer-based switch so, fortunately, it wasn't a big loss. I guess turning it off and on over time finally killed it. |
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