On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:21:58 -0500 Stan Hoeppner <[email protected]> wrote:
... > Considering the cost of the entire switch IC in a $10 USD 8 port switch > (which includes an external AC/DC transformer and a 3 foot ethernet > patch cable for the price) is less than $1 in 10k unit quantities, the > cost of say 64KB RAM on that switch chip is going to be in the 10 cent > range or less. > > The reason many/most cheap 4/8/16 port switches have an 8192 entry MAC > table is because they're all likely using the same switch chip from a > single vendor, and this chip was designed with an 8192 entry MAC table. > The chip is cheap, reliable, and available in large quantities, so > everyone uses it. Makes sense, thanks. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
