On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:05:24PM -0500, Doug Hughes wrote: > the S2410 switch (20@cx4 and 4@XFP) is fair. The problem is that it's a > fairly old OS, sftos, and almost all the modern things you want to > connect to it will not do CX4, so that's of limited use.
Supermicro makes a super-cheap UIO CX4 card, so likely all my 10G connections that are not to other switches will be CX4. > We also have > had issues with the management capability randomly going away on these, > even serial console. That's probably part of the reason they are so > inexpensive. Also, they have no L3 capability, they are purely L2 and > because it's SFTOS the configuration syntax will be a bit foreign. the > 4810 switch is SO MUCH BETTER and with FTOS is looks very similar to IOS. Hm. Yeah, and no documentation? that sounds pretty bad. I've got a really nice serial console setup, but it sounds like that won't help me in this case. Sounds like that's not the best way to go. > On the other hand, the 2410 will forward your packets on the backplane > very quickly. It's plenty fast enough. > > I'd very much recommend the 4810. It's an awesome switch. It also has 4 > @40g ports that you can use to stack them together to make virtual > chassis and have LAG to hosts. Hm. Looks nice, but about ten grand out of budget. I really only need about 4 10G ports for now, everything else is still GigE, and I need a lot of those, so one of the HP chassis switches is starting to look good. A friend says I should build a 'fat tree'[1] out of cheap switches; but it looks to me like a chassis switch is a lot less work until I need a whole heck of a lot of 10G+ ports, and even then it will have... significant costs in terms of cable management complexity, and considering that I only need around 100 fastE ports at this location, a chassis switch would do it. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_tree _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
