[plug] gigabit switch recommendations

[Paul Dean]

Hi,

Mmm $500 probably won't cut it mate sorry, I done what you want to do, but that was with a L3 Cisco switch, 3750, and I guess we all know how much they go for.

You could try and pick up a 2nd hand 2960S from iptrading or something like that, unless someone on the mailing list has one to flog.

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On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:03:24 +0800
Brad Campbell <brad at fnarfbargle.com> wrote:

>On 17/11/14 16:47, Paul Del wrote:
>> Hey guys
>>
>> Any recommendations for a gigabit switch brand/type?
>>
>> My requirements are
>> gigabit Ethernet
>> 16x ports
>> needs to be rack mount
>> budget is $500 max
>>
>> main thing I require is link aggregation/port trunking
>> for bonding to get greater speeds/throughput in Debian
>
>You really, really need to quantify what "get greater speeds" means. If you mean you want one connection to use more than one links bandwidth then you are pretty much SOL with a switch. If you have 30 heavy duty clients and you need more than one uplink to a NAS then you will probably be ok.
>
>If you want more than one links worth of bandwidth then you need to use something like round-robin and that is pretty much not compatible with switches. I do it here to get 3G between machines, but it's strictly point to point. You won't get it to switch efficiently at all.
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