Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 06:58:08 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Sedore <cmsedore@maxwell.syr.edu> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912210651160.86508-100000@qwerty.maxwell.syr.edu> In-Reply-To: <385F2FFD.CA594829@softweyr.com>
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On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > > At 11:18 PM -0700 12/18/99, Wes Peters wrote: > > >Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to > > > > get rid of my HUBs, I was constantly having to deal with packet loss > > > > when running saturation tests and never able to figure out what > > > > was causing it. > > > > > >Switches are a better solution, no doubt about it. They are well worth > > >the cost, even if you're just trying to pep up an old 10Base-T network. > > >Investing in 10Base-T switches at this time is a false economy; for only > > >a few dollars more per port you can get 10/100 switches like yours and > > >upgrade machines to Fast Ethernet as budget allows. > > > > Getting back to the topic of switches, I've recently bought three > > different "reasonably cheap" 10/100 switches for some testing. > > One thing I would have liked to have had was an option to "mirror" > > the traffic of one port on some other port. > > [...] but I was wondering how > > much one has to fork out before you get extra options like a > > port-mirroring capability... > > Lots more, in terms of dollars. For this, you need at least a managed > switch, and probably a smart switch. I know for a fact this one, a > 24-port 10Base-T switch with 2 10/100 uplink ports, supports port mirroring > and hundreds of other features -- about $1100: > > http://shopper.cnet.com/shopping/resellers/1,10231,0-11726-311-1459828-3,00.html?tag=st.sh.11726-311-1459828.sort.price > You can get more from the HP Procurve 4000s for a little more money. You can buy them for $1500 (after a $400 rebate). 40 100BaseTX ports, with 5 open slots for more 8 port carts (we have some with 80 ports) or for gigabit cards (have two like this). We've got about 18 of these installed--they work great, and we haven't had autosense problems like we have with some other switches. Does port mirroring, trunking, IP multicast, VLANs, etc. http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.asp?EDC=126119 No connection with HP, except for being happy with this switch. -Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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