[TriLUG] OT: Hardware question

Jonathan Woodbury jpwoodbu at mybox.org
Wed Mar 7 15:28:48 EST 2007


HP's 1800-8G might fit your needs. It only web manageable (it seems), but
it's also only $170 from CDW.

Jonathan

On 3/7/07, Matt Pusateri <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com> wrote:
>
> I can whole heartily advise against the dell switches.  I have a bunch
> of the 5324's and hate them.  And you can't manage the web interface
> from anything but IE.  There command line interface seems rather
> unintuitive for setting up vlans. I've slowly been replacing them and
> sending the Dell's to our corporate office to the windows admins.
>
> Matt
>
> OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
> > Well, right now I've compared things to a Dell PowerConnect switch,
> > which can easily be had for 100-200 off ebay....
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> > Behalf Of Magnus
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 2:22 PM
> > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Hardware question
> >
> > OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
> >
> >> Here's what I'm looking for:
> >>
> >> - 10/100/1000 switch that supports vlans (managed).
> >>
> >> I'm planning on using this at home. Any recommendations... or ones to
> >> stay away from?
> >>
> >> At LEAST 8 ports. The more the merrier (until cost becomes an issue).
> >>
> >
> > I've got a Cisco Catalyst 3524 at home.  24x standard ethernet ports
> > running at 10/100, and 2 GBIC (gigabit) ports.  Has all the great
> > management stuff you could want and they are somewhat affordable these
> > days on eBay.
> >
> > If you want all the ports to be gigabit, AND you want management &
> > vlan's, then cost is going to be an issue.
> >
> >
> >
>
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