On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Stephen Adler <[email protected]> wrote: > Guys, > > I was thinking that I may need to get a new switch for a set of > computers I have in a lab at work. Usually I would go get a dumb Gigabit > switch with 4 or 8 ports at Microcenter. But I'm thinking for this > situaion, I should get something a bit more sophisticated. A switch > which could manage perhaps some vlans. The idea is that I could assign > different subnets to different ports on the switch. I don't really need > routing capability and would prefer it not do that since it could mess > up the network in the building. > > anyway, any suggestions on which model switch I should be looking at? I > want to mount it in a standard 19" rack.
I don't have any specific recomendations (haven't bought any recently), but I have noticed that managed gigabit switches have really come down in price. The premium over unmanaged switches seems much lower then it used to be. For example this random HP 8 port managed switch: http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/HP-1810-8G-v2-switch-8-ports-managed-desktop-wall-mountable-Smar/3262306.aspx is available for $110. In general, my rule of thumb for the cheapest unmanaged switches has been around $5 a port. At only $70 more then the $40 I would expect for umanaged that isn't so bad. They added a CPU, full IP stack, and applications in what is a rather specialized product. Now if only 10Gigabit switches would come down to $5 a port. :-) Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
