All of pfSense (ESF & Netgate, including the collocation sites) runs on a combination of Dell PowerEdge 5524P (PoE), 5548, and 8924F switches.
-- Jim > On Sep 23, 2014, at 12:56 PM, Chris Bagnall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 23/9/14 6:46 pm, RB wrote: >> I'd suggest at least a managed switch that can do LACP. > > This. > > Given how small the price difference often is between unmanaged and > semi-managed (aka 'smart') switches these days, it just doesn't make sense to > buy unmanaged any more. You never know when things like VLANs, LLDP and LACP > might just come in handy, and even if you never use them, a managed switch > will also allow you to do other interesting things like graph per-port (and > sometimes per-port-VLAN) usage, which can be useful for detecting misbehaving > network hardware elsewhere. > >> I've >> had decent results with the Linksys/Cisco SMB switches and the ZyXel >> GS1900 range. > > One of our clients uses the Zyxel switches to good effect. Their 24 port PoE > versions are certainly competitively priced. > > I tend to use HP where possible. At the lower cost end of the market, > something like the 1810-24G (web managed) is a good bet, or move up to the > 2510/2520 if you need more management functionality and/or a CLI. I've > avoided the 1910 range; AIUI they're basically rebadged 3Com units after the > HP/3Com buyout. > > Kind regards, > > Chris > -- > This email is made from 100% recycled electrons > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
