On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Moshe Katz <[email protected]> wrote: > If you don't need to do any fancy routing or VLAN stuff, just go on Amazon > or NewEgg and get the top-rated 16-port unmanaged gigabit switch.
I would slightly disagree - note that it's a compute cluster and that the machines have dual NIC ports. If the cluster's application is network-heavy or needs each host to have a highly-available network link, I'd suggest at least a managed switch that can do LACP. I've had decent results with the Linksys/Cisco SMB switches and the ZyXel GS1900 range. If one NIC is okay, any unmanaged 16-port will do. If dual links are required, I'd suggest either a trio of 16s (two access and one core that's dual-linked to the access switches) or a single 24 if redundancy isn't a concern. _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
