On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 10:14:52AM -0400, John E.P. Hynes wrote: > Toni Mueller wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm looking into getting switches to be used in port-extender style, >> and found a thread from last year recommending Cisco switches. I need >> about 20-50 ports atm, and would like to avoid Cisco. My current >> preference is using Procurve (2810 or 29xx). Do they work? >> >> What do you recommend? Any gotchas? >> > > FWIW, I've had no trouble with Allied Telesys, either. >
I saw AT switches going insane and turning into hubs broadcasting all the traffic when they saw some multicast packets from the OpenBSD box. Replacing them with another vendor solved the problem. reyk
