I thought about this long and hard late last night and early this morning and here's my solution to all the damn problems we have...
i think im gonna make a proposal to the managers today....im gonna try to talk them into getting new switches. All this is still on fast ethernet - NOT fiber! lol
Im gonna propose:
3 Cisco 3560s (48 port)
2 Cisco 2950s (24 port)
1 Catalyst 4506 modular ethernet port
Ill have the local electrician company come in and run all the fiber for us cuz I really dont feel like doing that shit throughout 6 floors. And since we have 6 printers on the 2nd floor that cost us a total of 2.5 million dollars, I think I'll put them on thier own VLAN and dedicate a 4 gig trunk to them since thier constantly pulling PDFs and other graphics from our graphics department.
this should eliminate unused wires - unused bandwith - unused ports - and should clean up this horrible mess that the last guy left me.
I'll keep you guys updated....this should be fun....
there wasnt any problems until we got this big fucker:
The iGen3 is a beast....but talk about eating bandwith....sheesh