Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 00:28:25 +0100 (WEST) From: Jose Gabriel Marcelino <gabriel@maquina.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Gigabit recommendations Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007140007160.32703-100000@devils.maquina.com>
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Hi, I'm preparing for a Gigabit setup here for a couple of FreeBSD and some Linux boxes. This will actaully be a Gigabit backbone to connect 4 switches over fiber, 1000Base-SX (Yes I know about the 220m limitation over my multimode fiber) I wonder if anyone could give me some recommendations. : I've already read enough about the network cards from the previous posts and it seems SysKonnect are the best, but I may have to go to the 3Com 3c985b Tigon II based cards due to local availability. My main doubt in on the switch side, I'm tempted to go for the 3Com SuperStack II 3900 which I can get for around US$2.400 here for the 24 port version. The 3800 is also tempting with it's layer 3 switching but at US$6.330 a piece it's a bit of overkill and overbudget for my company. Note I only mentioned 3Com here, these are the only ones I could get some info on. I'd be very happy to know other good, trustworthy brands you are using (I think Cisco may be very expensive but I haven't found the correct model yet...) Thanks for all the help. Regards Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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