How do I get a grip on network traffic with the Cisco 2900XL ?

Hi all,

This is my first post in this group and im relatively a newb in this
zone. I have recently inherited a 2900XL which I eagerly used to
replace my old DLink.

On to my problem... I run a a gaming LAN at my place every week, and
those litle sods just keep copying from each other and ruining the
gameplay.

Can I configure the switch so that all netbios and ftp has to go to a
specific machine (ie the file server) and stop the peer2peer bandwidth
hijacking?

I surely hope so

TIA
Jayse

 

No. The best you can do is to isolate the non players into a different
VLAN. If you do this, the non-players and the players will not be able
to communicate with each other (not w/o a router anyway).


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Try searching on Cisco for protected ports. In a nut-shell protected
ports can't talked to each other, but the can access the rest of the
network just fine. Hotel rooms are a good example.

-Chris

 

The 2900XLs have this functionality? I thought just the newer ones did.


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Thanks Chris, I went to Cisco before I posted this msg, and my 2900Xl
does support this feature (in the manual) but the Cisco site kinda
depends on a sound network theory which I dont possess (being an
embedded C++ guy)

Do you know of any quick setup, help, manual, instruction book, notes
on a matchbox that would get me started without the theory?


thanks again
Jayse

 

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products...tion_guide_chapter09186a0080112d26.html#35135

....put all the users ports as protected and leave the server as a
normal port.....see what happens !