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I think you would probably be better off getting something else. Like Wybenormal said, Ethernet modules are not cheap and you can get a cheap broadband router for under $100.

Use the "session-timeout" command under the line configuration. The following will allow for a 10 minute timeout: line vty 0 4 session-timeout 10

Knowing what errors you are getting may help a bit. Have you done any Spantree configuration to set which switch is root etc? If the 4000 is the central switch, you may want to adjust the priority of the 4000 down to a real small number (like 10) for each VLAN to ensure that it becomes the root.

Yes. Routers have nothing to do with multicasting other than the fact that they can be "multicast aware" and assist in limiting or extending the scope of a particular multicast group.

The 1605R has 2 10BaseT Ethernet ports and a single WIC slot. It comes with 4Mb of Flash and 8Mb of RAM by default. The 1720 has a single 10/100 Ethernet port and 2 WIC slots. It comes with 8Mb of flash and 32Mb of RAM by default. Those should be your primary differences. Hope that helps.

Typically when you have a backup solution in place, it is not to keep things up at full speed, but to not let critical traffic fail. Putting in fully redundant links at full speed is usually not an economical option. Sometimes DSL can be used, but often that is public traffic unless your...

What exactly do you mean by "won't be efficient enough"? What are requirements for efficiency?

Are you just trying to start it up with no configuration? if so, just remove the startup config - be careful though - once you do this it will be permanently be wiped.. Just do an "erase start" and reboot.

Can you define "crashes"? That's awfully ambiguous. 20 minutes is the default MAC table timeout for most switches - so possibly you are having an issue there? Anyway, to be able to troubleshoot something like this there would need to be a lot more info provided as to the design of...

Are you trying to redirect the enable authentiaction to TACACS? If so, that would be: aaa authen enable default group tac enable This will make it go to TACACS+ first and if it can't reach the server it will use the local enable password.

It is extremely dependant on the carrier and the level of performance that you get out of them. It also depends highly on the "slowness" you speak of and the application(s) experiencing the issues. Some carriers are very undersubscribed, meaning they have more bandwidth than...

It's pretty simple - here's what we use: line aux 0 modem InOut modem autoconfigure discovery transport input all speed 115200 Other than that, you'll just need a straight-through cable and a DB25 connector.

The ip route command is the correct one.

It may be that when you pulled the 2600 and added the address to the 7206 (secondary address I assume) that the Bay needed to have its arp cache cleared. You may want to try again if you can get the owner to wipe the arp cache (or tell them to reboot it if that's a possibility).

No problem - hopefully that gets you going down the right path!