> Anyone have a recommendation - manufacturer and class - for a small > datacenter (couple dozen servers, 100Mb of internet traffic) switch > infrastructure? > > I'm biased for Cisco because of history, but I'm now looking at a > startup's budget. We have a bsd firewall in front of everything, and
This is a tough one... Even for startups, I always push the cisco because cisco has never let me down. If it has some feature, you enable it, and it always works (perhaps after some coercion). You always have the ability to manage your service contract, and extend it before it's too late. The argument for cisco is most a bunch of arguments against everyone else. The same reasoning that I use to buy APC SmartUPS and never TrippLite or BackUPS or anything else... At present, the startup I'm working for, rejected the cisco in favor of Dell switches. They're not too bad, as long as you just want to do simple, normal switching. And you don't want to rely on warranty, so you keep a spare onhand. Recently, and without foresight at the time that we bought the switches ... I tried to enable LACP to aggregate 4 ports and accelerate a new fast fileserver. Unfortunately, in all of its configuration options (we literally exhaustively tested every possible permutation of LACP configuration settings) as long as LACP was enabled, we saw error packets. So eventually we disabled LACP. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
