topic Re: Gigabit upgrade Procurve Advice in Switches, Hubs, and Modems

Gigabit upgrade Procurve Advice

chris sheldon — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 08:42:35 GMT

I currently have 6 dell and hp netservers and 4 procurve 2524 switches. i want to upgrade the links to the servers to gigabit, and was thinking of installing intel Pro 1000MT cards in the servers, buying a Procurve 2824 switch and 4 ProCurve 100/1000-T Transceiver (J4834A) for the Procurve 2524's. I was then going to connect the 2524 via the 4 dual-personality ports of the 2824. Any comments....i have also been looking at the more expensive Procurve 4140gl

Re: Gigabit upgrade Procurve Advice

OLARU Dan — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 08:12:44 GMT

Read all posts from the URL below to get an image of what's happening to DELL computers (not only PowerEdge servers, but also Optiplex PCs).

http://forum.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=pes_network&message.id=1556&view=by_date_ascending&page=1

Re: Gigabit upgrade Procurve Advice

The Real MD — Mon, 15 Mar 2004 07:55:01 GMT

it sounds like you have the situation in hand. The only thing I would do is manually fix the speeds of the network cards and the ports on your switches. The only reason why I say this is that I have experienced problems with auto negotiation with different manufacturers.

Regards

Martin.