On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:11:04PM -0600, 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.
Dell's Powerconnect 2716 is probably a decent switch if you're willing to
spend a couple hundred. It's a great, inexpensive web managed switch with
all the VLAN, port priority, trunking and mirroring you'd expect from
higher end stuff. All 16 ports are GbE and handle jumbo frames. We've
been using a 2708 as a separate network between our servers, it performs
great. The 2708 doesn't do jumbo frames but the 2716 and 2724 do. I'm not
sure who the OEM is but they're pretty well built and the web interface is
pretty intuitive although it needs a web browser with decent javascript
support.
http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/products/compare.aspx/small_workgroup_gig?c=ca&cs=CABSDT1&l=en&s=bsd
Received on Wed Mar 14 23:39:49 2007
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