- #CAN YOU UPGRADE CISCO 2950 SWITCH TO GIGABIT ETHERNET DRIVERS#
- #CAN YOU UPGRADE CISCO 2950 SWITCH TO GIGABIT ETHERNET PC#
- #CAN YOU UPGRADE CISCO 2950 SWITCH TO GIGABIT ETHERNET DOWNLOAD#
- #CAN YOU UPGRADE CISCO 2950 SWITCH TO GIGABIT ETHERNET WINDOWS#
#CAN YOU UPGRADE CISCO 2950 SWITCH TO GIGABIT ETHERNET DRIVERS#
Switches, properly implemented, upped the ante some by providing an apparent bandwidth increase (allowing multiple pairs to be in-session concurrently), and brought about the function of "full duplex." The switching logic allows for traffic to be independently switched on the transmit and receive side a single station, properly configured with drivers that support it, can be transmitting and receiving at the same time. Since the devices could only either talk or listen at any given time, the "conversations" were said to be half-duplex.
#CAN YOU UPGRADE CISCO 2950 SWITCH TO GIGABIT ETHERNET PC#
On coax, only one machine / device / PC could talk at once (if a collision occurred, the colliding systems waited and tried again after going through another listening period. In the good ol' / bad ol' days, hubs were built to emulate a chunk of coax. Many / most / all of the "consumer grade" switches will auto-sense, but it's not a given. The Gig connection to my game network's cheap-o single-GigE-to-10/100 switch (straight-through), the cheap-o switch autosenses and "crosses-over." My Cisco 2950 will not autosense and do crossover. It depends on the transceiver chipset used in the device. The laptop uses 802.11g, so it's irrelevant.Īlso, I was told that Gigabit crossover cables are made much differently than 10/100 crossover cables so unless you KNOW that the answer applies to Gigabit Ethernet also, please don't assume it does and missinform me Only the media machine and the fileserver will use Gigabit.
I figure that a switch will be used/required in the future, but I really don't have the money now unless performance will suffer.
#CAN YOU UPGRADE CISCO 2950 SWITCH TO GIGABIT ETHERNET WINDOWS#
I do plan on adding a Windows XP Media Center HTPC to the mix someday and Gigabit will come in handy for off-loading all that Media Center content and accessing everything the rest of the computers have access to (It will be exclusively connected to the HDTV). Daily DVD and CD image transfers, weekly hard drive imaging, file access and storage for both the laptop and the media machine on the fileserver. I have yet to see a Cisco device without this ability.I still don't fully understand how a Fast Ethernet switch can be "full duplex" and a CAT5 crossover cable can't, but does Gigabit have the same restriction (Full duplex only with a switch)? Which should I use, crossover or a switch?
#CAN YOU UPGRADE CISCO 2950 SWITCH TO GIGABIT ETHERNET DOWNLOAD#
If you were to load a bad IOS image on a router, switch or AP, you can boot into rommon/recovery mode on the device and use TFTP to download a working image to the unit. It shouldn't take long to do and that way you're not missing a step in converting an old config to a new config and messing with different ports and such. Personally I'd wait and do the config from scratch on the 2960S. You could copy and paste it into notepad or your text editor of choice and do a replace on FastEthernet for GigabitEthernet and add or remove ports that either did or did not exist on the 2950.
You could probably get away with some basic stuff but considering the port counts are possibly different and the port types are almost certainly different (Ethernet/FastEthernet on the 2950? to GigabitEthernet on the 2960S) you wouldn't be able to do a direct copy and past. I don't know what changed from 12.1 -> 15.0.2-SE6. The 2950 capped at 12.1 from what I saw on Cisco's support site. It won't load, so there is no other impact and there is nothing to recover from.Ĭan I create config on say 12.4 on the 2950 and just copy/paste into the new switch (2960 running likely 15.X) or will that cause problems?
Not booting properly? Is there an easy way to recover from this situation if that happens? If there would be any permanent negative impact outside of the device I believe the 2950 has an 8MB flash card while the 2960S firmware is ~13MB. Aside from the switch checking to make sure the firmware is for that model and any number of boot issues you would have if you could force it to install, the 2960S firmware wouldn't fit on the flash of a 2950.
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