look at HP Procurves. That is what I use.
You can get 2524's quite cheap on ebay.
We used these for years, and they were great, and super cheap on EBay.
HP support was fantastic as well. The 26xx series allows for light
layer 3 routing; you may want to snag the 2626 or 2650 instead of the
2009/3/26 nate cen...@linuxpowered.net
Luke S Crawford wrote:
Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com writes:
If you get a service contract on any piece of Cisco equipment, you
typically get download access to all of the firmware updates.
Yeah, but the problem for me is that for my frontend
A 3548 is only layer 2 anyway, i.e. ethernet switching, i.e. below
IP... A model sometimes confused with the 3548 is the 3550-48, the
48x100M member of the 3550 series that replaced the 3500 series and as
such the 3548, which does have layer 3 functionality in the EMI
releases,
Scott McClanahan wrote:
I'll probably rule out anything that doesn't offer at least 48 ports of
10/100/1000, ssh, port mirroring or spanning sessions, snmp, unique
spanning trees per vlan, and something like vrrp. It would be nice to
have 802.3ad (I think that's the right one) capability to
Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com writes:
If you get a service contract on any piece of Cisco equipment, you
typically get download access to all of the firmware updates.
Yeah, but the problem for me is that for my frontend network, 100M is just
fine. A used cisco 3548 is going to set me
Luke S Crawford wrote:
Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com writes:
If you get a service contract on any piece of Cisco equipment, you
typically get download access to all of the firmware updates.
Yeah, but the problem for me is that for my frontend network, 100M is just
fine. A used cisco
Luke S Crawford wrote:
in a lot of scenarios there are several choices, each with a different
set of bugs that you won't know about unless you open a TAC case and
tell an engineer exactly what features have to work for you.
Yeah, but at the used prices for 100M kit, I can buy two or
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Christopher Chan
christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
* vlans
* mstp or some well established form of per vlan spanning tree
* acl's
* port mirroring or what cisco calls span sessions
* snmp
* ssh enabled remote management
* support w/ updates and
Rob Townley schrieb:
Every time i read these posts they are filled with contradictions in
that one person loves HP and hates CiscoLinksys while another hates
HP. Let's get a more scientific approach. Switch performance still
depends on the NICS in the client machines.
Uhm. No. Not any
On Mar 24, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Rob Townley rob.town...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Christopher Chan
christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
* vlans
* mstp or some well established form of per vlan spanning tree
* acl's
* port mirroring or what cisco calls span sessions
Tier 2 might have Dell Powerconnects and HP Procurves and Cisco 2000
series products. These are good stable well performing products and
are gobbled up in heaps by small and medium businesses. These are the
usual choice for small enterprises and come in managed and unmanaged,
layer 2
Rainer Duffner wrote:
Switch performance is extremely difficult to measure IMO. You need
enough clients to make sure you're not accidentally measuring
client-performance.
There's also a lot more to switches than pure performance, line
rate switches have been around for at least a
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote:
Rob Townley schrieb:
Every time i read these posts they are filled with contradictions in
that one person loves HP and hates CiscoLinksys while another hates
HP. Let's get a more scientific approach. Switch
Rob Townley schrieb:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de
wrote:
Rob Townley schrieb:
Every time i read these posts they are filled with contradictions in
that one person loves HP and hates CiscoLinksys while another hates
HP. Let's get a more
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote:
Rob Townley schrieb:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de
wrote:
Rob Townley schrieb:
Every time i read these posts they are filled with contradictions in
that one person
Look there really are 3 tiers for network equipment. The first two
tiers all give wire speed performance and have managed layer 2 and 3
options. The last tier is for consumer home use.
Tier 1 might have high-end Cisco, Juniper or Nortel (and others) that
have modular enclosures redundant power
dnk wrote:
I had a reseller in here yesterday, and apparently the linksys (higher
end) lines are being merged into the cisco lines. So the linksys gear
will just be branded Cisco. I am not sure if this is all linksys gear,
or just what they cal the higher end stuff. But I am trying to confirm
One thing to remember is that you usualy get what you paid for...
I found out the hard way when my boss pushed me to buy brand XYZ PowerC...
switches because they were a half the price of other brands/models.
It said web-managed... and it really meant web (only) managed (not even SSL
Ross Walker wrote:
Look there really are 3 tiers for network equipment. The first two
tiers all give wire speed performance and have managed layer 2 and 3
options. The last tier is for consumer home use.
Tier 1 might have high-end Cisco, Juniper or Nortel (and others) that
have modular
Rainer Duffner wrote:
i am often not very
impressed by network performance and need standardized benchmarks to
figure out if there may be an issue at the NIC driver, switch or on up
to a virus shield. It was either a ~2004 Dell Power magazine or
~2004 Network World article that mentioned
Rob Townley rob.town...@gmail.com writes:
i would like to see real performance data via something like netperf
with client machines booted from a standardized LiveCD, then
peformance under their Linux Distribution and performance under
Windows.
Performance data is not the most important
Luke S Crawford wrote:
i would like to see real performance data via something like netperf
with client machines booted from a standardized LiveCD, then
peformance under their Linux Distribution and performance under
Windows.
Performance data is not the most important metric, at least
On Mar 24, 2009, at 7:12 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
Luke S Crawford wrote:
i would like to see real performance data via something like netperf
with client machines booted from a standardized LiveCD, then
peformance under their Linux Distribution and performance under
I'm looking to acquire a few new core switches for our network which
would be a major upgrade from the cheap unmanaged things we currently
have. Basically, just users, servers, and other simple network devices
will be plugged into them but I'd like to start doing some testing with
iSCSI for
Scott McClanahan schrieb:
I'm looking to acquire a few new core switches for our network which
HP procurve?
Or refurbished Cisco.
The HP procurve switches have a good reputation, though.
I'm not sure if they do everything on your list, though.
Rainer
Hi
I use a lot Nortel switches, 4548gt is working like a bomb a bit on the
expensive side but still really good.
Per
On 3/23/09 2:25 PM, Scott McClanahan smcclana...@forterrainc.com wrote:
I'm looking to acquire a few new core switches for our network which
would be a major upgrade from the
Scott McClanahan wrote:
I'm looking to acquire a few new core switches for our network which
would be a major upgrade from the cheap unmanaged things we currently
have. Basically, just users, servers, and other simple network devices
will be plugged into them but I'd like to start doing some
We use Extrem Networks x450 switches, see
http://www.extremenetworks.com/products/summit-x450a.aspx
Scott McClanahan pravi:
I'm looking to acquire a few new core switches for our network which
would be a major upgrade from the cheap unmanaged things we currently
have. Basically, just users,
Marko Mernik wrote:
We use Extrem Networks x450 switches, see
http://www.extremenetworks.com/products/summit-x450a.aspx
X450A is my favorite gigE switch as well, with ESRP you
can get layer 3 redundancy with layer 2 loop prevention in
a single protocol and don't need to have other switches
in
* vlans
* mstp or some well established form of per vlan spanning tree
* acl's
* port mirroring or what cisco calls span sessions
* snmp
* ssh enabled remote management
* support w/ updates and bugfixes
I need at least 48 ports per device and obviously would like them to be
fast. Most
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