[plug] gigabit switch recommendations

[Leon Wright]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Bill Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> Yep, but still the same problem - you need hardware to run it on.
> pfsense have some 3 port alix based hardware but nothing 16 port or
> more.  They offer a guide to producing high throughput PC based systems
> but its still not cheap/simple.  pfsense has a routing and not switching
> focus.
>
> You can get PCI 4 port Intel switch cards for ~$75 - but I have only
> seen 1 sockets on a motherboard - a quick search didn't show anything
> different so it may be a technical limitation?
>
> BillK
>

You could grab a juniper switch. They are much cheaper than cisco and the
ones that run Junos are freebsd underneath. They're pretty flexible.

Leon

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