[geeks] Ethernet Switches
Jonathan C. Patschke
jp at celestrion.net
Tue Oct 17 15:15:02 CDT 2006
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Bill Bradford wrote:
> We had a single 24-port copper gigabit switch (I don't remember the
> exact model) that had to be rebooted at least daily, or it would lock
> up.
If it's a 5324, it has amazing specs. 64MB memory, 16MB flash, IIRC
260MHz ARM processor. With all that, it can't manage to keep up with 24
gigabit ports. Are they doing the switching in software or something?
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Elgin, TX the powerful dictate what they desire--they all con-
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