[TriLUG] OT - gigabit switches

Greg Brown gwbrown1 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 21 11:30:01 EDT 2006


I've got a 24 port 10/100/1000 Cisco something-or-another with 10 gig
uplinks down in the lab.  It's a sweet piece of hardware.  I still prefer
the 65xx and 45xx chassis based switches for everyday use however.

On 9/21/06, Jim Ray <jim at neuse.net> wrote:
>
> Last one I deployed was cisco# WS-C2960-24TT-L.  We bolted up the two
> gigabit ports to the server and run 100 Mbps to clients.
>
> I never read the sales literature.  Instead, I called to ask what they
> recommended and picked up the product line.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim
>
> Jim Ray, President
> Neuse River Networks
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Christopher L Merrill
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 10:03 AM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT - gigabit switches
>
> Greg Brown wrote:
> > if possible.  Some of the more inexpensive gig switches give you a lot
> of
> > bang for the buck but avoid the commodity stuff as even though they say
> > they are gig they have little more then 250 meg of throughput.
>
> Given that the sales literature will do it's best to camouflage this fact,
> any suggestions how I would tell the difference?
>
> TIA,
> Chris
>
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