I'm a bit stumped on this one, and having a background in HP switches is making it worse. I have a metro-e connection that will have up to 100 VLANs coming in on it. This is connected to a GigE port ...

I recently acquired a rack mountable switch (non-Cisco, only for the price advantage). The main reason was to consolidate the wiring in a 42U rack full of servers. The wires coming out of the rack was ...