[tech] New switches

[David Adam]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Matt Didcoe wrote:
> Thanks to some awesome dealing by Frenchie, we now have two (well one, other
> one is on its way) new Cisco 2948G-GE-TX switches.
> 
> They will be called Coconut and Palm.
> 
> The first (Coconut) has been configured as a near exact replica of 
> Lorenzo (I think) -it still needs a bit of work, but I hope to have it 
> in production tomorrow afternoon.

Over the last few days I've been slowly moving stuff across, and tonight I 
bit the bullet and moved just about everything from Lorenzo. There are 
still a few remaining ports, but I'm out of time, and they're the exciting 
ones so best left to daytime. I also fixed the port descriptions on 
Lorenzo so that anyone moving them across should be able to work out what 
they are reasonably easily.

I'll update wiki.ucc.asn.au/Network/SwitchConfiguration at some stage, but 
they are all labelled in the config (which has been pulled into SVN by 
rancid - see http://cvs.ucc.asn.au/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/rancid).

I paid very little attention to the optimal ordering of ports based on the 
switch internals; I don't actually think this is worth caring about yet.

I've also added the switch to Cacti (wheel members only, sorry).
 
> When Palm comes down from Arts some time in the next couple of weeks, 
> the plan is to drop that in the left hand rack.

In the meantime, I've run a cable for Maraena (which hosts Mylah and 
Mussel) across the back wall so that it has gigabit access.

David Adam
UCC Wheel Member
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