New to managed switches

[JCROCCO]

I have a 24 port managed switch. I have connected to it:

11 computers (all gig speed)
3 printers (all at 10/100)
1 NAS device (has 2 gig ports)
1 internet (VOIP at 10/100)

All in the same office, using all the above. Is there any advantage to try and manage traffic?

The switch is a Netgear GS724T.

Any advice is appreciated.

 

[jlazzaro]

it may be worth classifying your VoIP ports as high priority...other than that, such a low-end switch doesnt provide much in the way of traffic management.

 

[JCROCCO]

I have 11 computers on the gig switch. Is there any speed advantage or other advantage to preventing computers from linking to each other? Does that help at all? My computer needs to access all others, but the others do not need to access each other, only the NAS, printers, and WAN.

If there is any advantage, It may be worth doing.

 

[jlazzaro]

Unless you have a legitimate security concern, leave it alone.

What you described would entail segmenting the switch with VLANs, setting up a router-on-a-stick, and creating access-lists. Dissallowing host > host communication on a common subnet would require private vlans.

If you're hell bent on setting something like this up, use application level permissions.

 

[JCROCCO]

Ok then, Thanks for your advice.

This switch could be used if I elected to allow another company in the space next to ours (which we own and lease out) to share our T1 internet but not be allowed on my network. Is this statement correct?

 

[jlazzaro]

most likely...what type of router does the switch connect to?

 

[JCROCCO]

a VOIP router, and one I dont control. Would the router need anything done to it?

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: JCROCCO
a VOIP router, and one I dont control. Would the router need anything done to it?

Set up sub-ints to segment traffic onto your VLANs?