Hi all, Anyone have any recommendations for compact managed switches? Something in the 5 to 10 port range. Ideally, PoE as an option would be nice. 10/100 is all we need for the station ports; it would be nice if the uplink was gig.
Management features I'm interested in include: Port status, port enable/disable, VLANs, VLAN prioritization, SNMP queryable for performance monitoring. I'm a CLI guy, so management with SSH would be nice, but I suppose I can live with a web GUI if I have to. I've got the typical situation where management planned poorly and we now have a few locations where we have N network jacks and N+X network nodes to plug in (X varies from 1 to 4). We've got SOHO unmanaged mini-switches in these places, but I've never liked doing that. Most of these don't *need* PoE, although it won't hurt if they have it. I've also got a new outlying building I need to bring up. It's only going to need three or four network jacks, so I'm somewhat reluctant to spend the money on a full-size 24-port PoE switch. However, it's also a longer distance than I can do without a switch, so I need something. I've found various prospects[1], but I'd like to hear from actual experience. [1] LinkSys SFE1000P; NetGear GS108T; ZyXEL ES-2108; SMC SMC6709GL2; D-Link DES-3010 advTHANKSance -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
