Re: Gigabit switch recomendations?

On 14-Mar-07, at 10:15 PM, unit3 wrote:

> Dylan Griffiths wrote:
>> I have a gigE switch I bought last year when I upgraded my LAN to
>> gigabit, but it's rather limited. It doesn't support jumbo frames at
>> all, and when I have a connection that crosses over from the slower
>> 100Mbit segment, I get random pauses in the traffic (noticed via SSH
>> and also between Myth front end and backend).
>> Does anyone have any suggestions for a decent (jumbo frame
>> supporting, non-bad-boundary handling) switch? 5 or 8 ports are
>> fine,
>> preferably less than $100. Thanks.
> Look at either SMC or Netgear. Both of them make consumer grade,
> "dumb"
> switches that support jumbo frames and perform quite well. You
> should be
> able to track one down at NCIX or similar for a sub $100 price.

I've had a Netgear GS608 (8 port) for about a year now and it has
worked well. It supports jumbo frames to 9k. I believe I did
trigger a crash once, but to be fair I was running some IDS load
testing through it. It is readily available online for under $100.

> Note that IIRC, if you have jumbo frames on the gigabit segment,
> you'll
> need a smart device (router, Linux box, etc) in between it and the 100
> mbit segment to adjust the frame sizing.

PMTU discovery should also take care of that.

-- Jason
Received on Wed Mar 14 22:42:29 2007