I agree with the point that managed vs nonmanaged price difference is negligible so why not managed...
Ubiquiti is worth a look for this application. The OS is nice to work with and has both CLI and GUI http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgeswitch/ On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Adam Thompson <athom...@athompso.net> wrote: > +1 for HP ProCurve, except for the stuff they inherited from 3Com... > I've also had reasonably good luck with Netgear and D-Link managed > switches. > The Cisco SMB stuff seems OK hardware-wise, but the software is > questionable. > Note that all three of these options come with lifetime, free, firmware > updates. > -Adam > > > On September 23, 2014 12:56:00 PM CDT, Chris Bagnall < > pfse...@lists.minotaur.cc> 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 >> >> > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > List@lists.pfsense.org > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > -- Michael Bubb +1.646.783.8769 | KD2DTY Resume - http://mbubb.github.io/res/resume.html *noli timere*
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