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From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
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On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:19:37PM -0800, Wes Peters wrote:
> bit.  The HP ProCurves perform well and are reliable and (relatively) 
> cheap.

And indeed, the infrastructure for most of the off-shore data-haven HavenCo
on the Principality of Sealand was built on ProCurve switches.

Not only are they VLAN-capable, but they're SSH-capable, too.
Now if only SPC.org had more equipment budget... :-)

BMS