Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 19:27:09 +0000 From: Andrew Sharp <andy@accrue.com> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: router/bridge question Message-ID: <3647420D.E3E2A0A3@accrue.com> References: <199811090700.IAA27388@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <3647321F.86509DA7@softweyr.com>
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Wes Peters wrote: > You obviously haven't looked inside the little 4- and 8-port 10Base-T > switches these days. Yeah, I suppose you could call those forwarding > chips software, but they certainly look like hardware to me. To the > guy who used to sit across the hall from me designing one of them, too. > His switch has a tiny little ROM (256 bytes or so) to configure the > forwarding chip. > > That 8-port 10Base-T switch, now known as the Intel InBusiness Switch, > sells for $250 at DataComm Warehouse: > > http://product.warehouse.com/SEARCH/bin/catproduct.DLL?product_id=168477 > > When it comes to "easy to implement" solutions, these things can't be > beat. Most of them have one control: the on/off switch. Actually in this market there are many inexpensive goodies out there nowadays, Intel's products being nearer the top of the price curve. Small switch prices seem to have been in free fall lately. 4-8 port multi-speed (auto-sensing, speed-matching, etc.) switches can be found for less than $200US. Ideal for home or office. ~:^) If it takes more than two hours to get the server configured and working, then it probably cost more in your time than one of these switches. Of course, you still have some config to do.... As for the other comment, that many switches are running software, this is no doubt true. At least one switch company's high end products are implemented with a whittled down version of FreeBSD! a To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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