Re: OT: Does a low-cost, reliable switch exist?

2007-07-17 Thread Modulok
Sometimes they work for a day, a week, even a month without problems. Then at a random time of day or night, boom network goes down. It's not any individual defective switch as I've tried re-ordering them several times as well as testing them individually. The cables are all good and wired

Re: OT: Does a low-cost, reliable switch exist?

2007-07-16 Thread Rob
Modulok wrote: I run a small network of under 20 clients. As such we don't have $500+ to drop on a Cisco switch. However the desktop consumer grade stuff is quickly turning me into an insomniac. I'm tired of being woke at 3:00 am to go fix network problems. Does anyone know if something like

Re: OT: Does a low-cost, reliable switch exist?

2007-07-16 Thread Jim Capozzoli
On 7/15/07, Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Norberto Meijome wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:42:09 -0600 Modulok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently I'm using 3 Netgear GS108 Gigabit blue-box switches chained together for local traffic, with a FreeBSD server acting as the gateway to the

Re: OT: Does a low-cost, reliable switch exist?

2007-07-15 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Norberto Meijome wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:42:09 -0600 Modulok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently I'm using 3 Netgear GS108 Gigabit blue-box switches chained together for local traffic, with a FreeBSD server acting as the gateway to the outside world, running ipfw and natd. The switches

Re: OT: Does a low-cost, reliable switch exist?

2007-07-15 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jul 14, 2007, at 7:42 PM, Modulok wrote: I run a small network of under 20 clients. As such we don't have $500+ to drop on a Cisco switch. However the desktop consumer grade stuff is quickly turning me into an insomniac. I'm tired of being woke at 3:00 am to go fix network problems.

Re: OT: Does a low-cost, reliable switch exist?

2007-07-15 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Kurt Buff ha scritto: On 7/14/07, Modulok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip rantage I just need something stable enough that I can catch some sleep without this re-occurring nightmare. Is there hope? Thoughts? Suggestions? -Modulok- Look at eBay for a used 24 port HP switch. They are reliable,

Re: OT: Does a low-cost, reliable switch exist?

2007-07-15 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:39:55 +0200 Andrea Venturoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got some running 24/7 without a hitch for some years without once rebooting them; they are under UPS as every switch should be (but probably they would work fine anyway). indeed...but, again, i remember an

Re: OT: Does a low-cost, reliable switch exist?

2007-07-15 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Sunday 15 July 2007 04:39:55 Andrea Venturoli wrote: I've got some running 24/7 without a hitch for some years without once rebooting them; they are under UPS as every switch should be (but probably they would work fine anyway). hehe, if you *dont* put them on UPS, cant you use those

OT: Does a low-cost, reliable switch exist?

2007-07-14 Thread Modulok
I run a small network of under 20 clients. As such we don't have $500+ to drop on a Cisco switch. However the desktop consumer grade stuff is quickly turning me into an insomniac. I'm tired of being woke at 3:00 am to go fix network problems. Does anyone know if something like this exists? (see

Re: OT: Does a low-cost, reliable switch exist?

2007-07-14 Thread Kurt Buff
On 7/14/07, Modulok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip rantage I just need something stable enough that I can catch some sleep without this re-occurring nightmare. Is there hope? Thoughts? Suggestions? -Modulok- Look at eBay for a used 24 port HP switch. They are reliable, and the lifetime

Re: OT: Does a low-cost, reliable switch exist?

2007-07-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:42:09 -0600 Modulok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently I'm using 3 Netgear GS108 Gigabit blue-box switches chained together for local traffic, with a FreeBSD server acting as the gateway to the outside world, running ipfw and natd. The switches eventually lock up. I've