additional comment on procurve switches: If you want to authenticate more than one client on a port you need multidomain authentication support. This is available on hp3500yl and up(comparable with cisco 3500 series i think) the 26xx is indeed a good cheap poe switch(only 10/100 but that should be enough for poe application) Almost all managed procurve switches support the same security features(certainly from 26xx and up), so that makes it easier to combine different models in your network without sacrificing security. most of the difference is in port speed and routing functions and whether it is chassis based or not. I can also recommend the 5400 chassis based switch. largest model can handle 12 modules(also available in 6 modules) which you can fill. cat5 modules for this switch are always 10/100/1000 with poe or modules for mini-gbics(chassis itself is quite cheap, and modules are also ok but only interesting if you have centralized cabling).
one disadvantage of the procurves is that they don't support "hardware" stacking(for procurve stacking is only a management feature) to built a virtual chassis with a high speed backbone link between 2 or more switches(i think cisco has models that can do this, but also not all). regards, Stieven Struyf M.I.S. Division - System Operations Komatsu Europe International NV Mechelsesteenweg 586 B-1800 Vilvoorde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. +32 (0)2 2552551 "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." -- E. W. Dijkstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 13-07-2007 11:54:25: > Jacob Jarick wrote: > > Thanks very much for that information, shall follow up on it :) > > > > On 7/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > > > Jacob > > I use procurve switches and i'm quite happy with them. Price is > > almost half of cisco prices(and lifetime warranty).(although i > > have already seen cisco match hp prices for large purchases if you > > mention procurve) > > Until previous firmware version they even suppported cisco p > > protocols (and open standard). Now they moved to open standards. > > > > > Yep Second Vote for HP Procurves, any of the 26** support dynamic VLAN > assignment, they also have a really neat feature for authenticating > admin users on their ssh, web, consol interfaces using RADIUS with > failover to local... > Full accounting support, Mac based authentication, supplicant port mode > (where the port on one hp can authenticate to another)... Loads more > stuff like filtering and ingress bandwidth limiting using VSAs. > These also have a nice feature called OpenVLAN, where the switch can > drop people with broken supplicants into an arbitrary vlan, where you > can provide resources to help fix their supplicant software. "This e-mail is property of the company and is supposed to contain only professional content. The company can at all times consult the content of this e-mail and the reply to this e-mail. By replying to this e-mail, you confirm your explicit agreement with the preceding." "Deze e-mail is het eigendom van de Vennootschap en wordt verondersteld enkel beroepsmatige informatie te bevatten. De Vennootschap kan ten allen tijden de inhoud van deze e-mail en van het antwoord daarop raadplegen. Door het beantwoorden van deze e-mail bevestigt U uitdrukkelijk uw akkoord met het voorafgaande."
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