[geeks] Ethernet Switches

[Michael Parson]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 11:59:20AM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net>
>> Date: 2006/10/12 Thu PM 07:42:15 CDT
>> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>> Subject: Re: [geeks] Ethernet Switches
>
>> On Oct 12, 2006, at 7:41 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>>
>>> Bill Bradford wrote:
>>>>> I so wish I could find a Cisco C2948G or C2980G at a reasonable 
>>>>> price.
>>>>> There's one on ebay for $200, but it's sold as-is.
>>>>
>>>> Will Cisco still honor the lifetime guarantee on the 29xx series?  I
>>>> had them replace a 2924XL that $WORK threw out due to too many bad
>>>> ports.  It just took like 4-6 weeks to get the replacement in.
>>>
>>> That's a good idea!  Anyone know?
>>>
>>
>> No they will not, at least when I called they didn't.

> Related question - any opinions on HP ProCurve switches?
>
> PCMALL.COM has model 2510-24 (w/ twenty two 10/10/1000 ports, two
> dual-personality 10/100/1000 or mini-GIBIC interfaces, RADIUS network
> login) for $300 (after $20 rebate pcmall.com SKU 7118519) and an
> 8 port version w/o mini-GIBIC or Radius login for $150 (after $10
> mail-in rebate pcmall.com SKU 7115887)...
>
> Seems like pretty good pricing for brand-new managed Gigabit switches
> with a lifetime warranty, but I'm new to the market for these types of
> items...

I've never used that model, but I have used the ProCurve 4000 switches
quite a bit.  For the price, hard to beat.  It wound up being cheaper to
buy two half-populated chassis than to buy a full single chassis, which
was nice, then you got a shelf-spare chassis and a second power-supply.

They did VLANs, VLAN trunking, had available gig ports (gig port took a
full blade per port, which kinda sucked).  You could configure it via
the text based menu, or a command-line, could ftp the configs in both
directions, etc.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org