On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 11:09:02 -0400 Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote:
> Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 15:41:13 -0400 > > Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > To give an idea of what you might buy: > > > > > > a firewall/router > > > a switch > > > a load-balancer > > > 2 web servers > > > a database server > > > a mail server > > > a general utility box with lots of storage to handle backups > > > > > > All of those duties except the switch can reasonable be run on > > > Debian servers. > > > > I'm curious, although I don't know much about, and have little > > experience with, enterprise hardware. Am I correct in my understanding > > that it is actually possible to run (more-or-less) Debian on a switch > > by using OpenSwitch (OPX) on an Open Networking switch. I have no idea > > if this would be cost-effective in the OP's situation - basic switches > > are certainly a whole lot cheaper than the ones I looked at on the > > OPX HCL. > > Yes, and yes, those are fairly high-end switches compared to > what people tend to use in homes and offices. > > In many situations, people don't even need a manageable > switch. Once you start to exceed, say, 40 connections, a managed > switch becomes first useful and then necessity. When you need > multi-chassis failover and intra-switch links of more complexity > than "each desktop gets an 8 port gig-e switch with one used as > an uplink to the office switch", you need high-end switch > features. Gotcha. I did realize that those were higher on the food chain when I saw that they started at 10GB and went up from there ... Celejar