MAX & Ethernet switch
Denis
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Hi
I would like to know if I can use any switch with MAX server or if I have to use the AMX NXA-ENET24 switch ?
Tanks
I would like to know if I can use any switch with MAX server or if I have to use the AMX NXA-ENET24 switch ?
Tanks
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You should be able to use any Managed Ethernet Gigabit Switch. I stress the Managed part. Do not go to Best Buy and purchase a $59.00 Gigabit Switch, you will surely have problems. Ive used the Linksys SRW2016 and it has worked just fine.
The main thing with MAX is keeping the media stream network seperate from the control network. And I don't mean just subnetted, you have to partition your switch so it's completely seperate. You could get away with a regular switch if you had a completely discrete network for the media stream too.
You mean putting it on its own VLAN (Virtual LAN) with in the managed switch?
You could as Dave eluded to put it on it's own network with the MAX network set up on its own router and standard Giga-switch.
I've never used the MAX but I assume it has a sepreate LAN connection for control and DVD/CD title look ups over the internet and a different port for streaming.
Thanks a lot !
Can anyone give some recmmendations about how to setup a NXA-ENET24-POE?
Wanting to give the highest priority to the MAX, AVP's, AVM's, Master connected to the max
Second Priority the All the other masters
Third Priority Everything else
Have never worked with a managed switch before
Thanks
http://www.amx.com/techsupport/techNote.asp?id=732
So, the recommendation for the Linksys SRW2016 - has then been running for awhile without problems? It would seem to me that it should run for a good year without me having to pull a plug to get it to play nice again. This setup has a dedicated switch for the Max so it doesn't have to play nice with anything else, it just has to play 3 movies at once without blowing up randomly!
Just wanted a yes before I collect yet another switch! I do have a nice POE Linksys gigabit switch on the network, but admit I wasn't smart enough to figure out how to VLAN the thing, so I just use that for the rest of the network.
Curt
The falling offline is really annoying, we too have a remote kill switch just for the AVP's - are you getting better reliability with the Linksys switch?
Cheers
Only points to note are that when using the ENET24, to Subnet off ports, including one of the gigabit ports into an 'AV' Vlan, and then you can use the rest of the ports for the 'Control' Vlan. You can and some QoS to the video traffic if you so desire, but I haven't experienced any problems with video service as the backplane speed of the ENET24 if enough to handlle full duplex at maximum throughput for each port.
That is the main thing if you are looking at a third party switch (we will no longer sell a max to a customer without an ENET24 as some of our installers have made very poor choices in switches in the past, since then we have had no issues with 'faulty max servers') make sure the backplane speed is high enough to support the maximum speed on each port concurrently.
I should have said the AVP's are different as they do not need the MAX to boot (although clearly they do to run server content). The AVM's gave the network boot error for all number of reasons - STP disabled or not...
Do you not get the AVP's offline / unknown situation with the ENET24 switch? I've played with 3 or 4 different sorts - and none is more reliable than any other over time, sometimes weeks, sometimes hours...
The ENET24 is way over-priced, its more than an equivilant Catalyst. If its now packaged up with the Server, then it just makes MAX even less attractive than the alternatives.
Curt
That's been our experience. It's probably not a good idea to post this here but, for the sake of honest open discussion and feedback, we've just quit spec-ing them into systems. I'm still dealing with repairs/breakdowns/etc... with everyone we've installed. I'm not exaggerating; every single one.