From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 11:13:28 +0200 From: "Devon H. O'Dell " To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: gigabit ethernet switch Message-ID: <20050417091328.GB93428@smp500.sitetronics.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="17pEHd4RhPHOinZp" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3b074266-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 11:06:07AM +0200, fgergo@gmail.com wrote: > 1. Does anyone have experience with really unusable gigabit ethernet switches? > 2. Is there a - more than 10 port - gigabit ethernet switch what you'd > recommend? Yes: be wary of the price. There are several gigabit switches that are available from various big names with quite low prices. You want to look out for these, because they generally have a backplane that won't actually push its capacity if fully saturated. I believe there's even a Cisco 24-port gigabit switch with a 10Gbit backplane, which means that if all the machines are saturating the switch, it'll not be able to deliver any more than 10Gbit/s. If you're really wanting to do network testing or want performance on a filled switch, any of these will be unusable. So, I stress again, don't forget to check the speed of the backplane if it's a low-priced switch! --Devon --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCYii4Skf3jVXOdl0RAhCfAJ9YlxrkSHT77sRvGuib9Oz6pD3g+gCdH+rh IRf4gBHA9MruyoLDQJnVdgk= =FNQA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp--