<div dir="ltr">I nearly forgot, Thanks Leon I will check out Juniper switches<div><br></div><div>Freebsd would be good, Id be happy using that on a sw<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 8:00 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:plug-request@plug.org.au" target="_blank">plug-request@plug.org.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send plug mailing list submissions to<br>
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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 22:24:28 +0800<br>
From: Leon Wright <<a href="mailto:techman83@gmail.com">techman83@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Subject: Re: [plug] gigabit switch recommendations<br>
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On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Bill Kenworthy <<a href="mailto:billk@iinet.net.au">billk@iinet.net.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Yep, but still the same problem - you need hardware to run it on.<br>
> pfsense have some 3 port alix based hardware but nothing 16 port or<br>
> more. They offer a guide to producing high throughput PC based systems<br>
> but its still not cheap/simple. pfsense has a routing and not switching<br>
> focus.<br>
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> You can get PCI 4 port Intel switch cards for ~$75 - but I have only<br>
> seen 1 sockets on a motherboard - a quick search didn't show anything<br>
> different so it may be a technical limitation?<br>
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> BillK<br>
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You could grab a juniper switch. They are much cheaper than cisco and the<br>
ones that run Junos are freebsd underneath. They're pretty flexible.<br>
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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:55:30 +0800<br>
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On 30/12/14 22:24, Leon Wright wrote:<br>
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> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Bill Kenworthy <<a href="mailto:billk@iinet.net.au">billk@iinet.net.au</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:billk@iinet.net.au">billk@iinet.net.au</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> Yep, but still the same problem - you need hardware to run it on.<br>
> pfsense have some 3 port alix based hardware but nothing 16 port or<br>
> more. They offer a guide to producing high throughput PC based systems<br>
> but its still not cheap/simple. pfsense has a routing and not switching<br>
> focus.<br>
><br>
> You can get PCI 4 port Intel switch cards for ~$75 - but I have only<br>
> seen 1 sockets on a motherboard - a quick search didn't show anything<br>
> different so it may be a technical limitation?<br>
><br>
> BillK<br>
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> You could grab a juniper switch. They are much cheaper than cisco and<br>
> the ones that run Junos are freebsd underneath. They're pretty flexible.<br>
><br>
> Leon<br>
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Hmmm - thats something to look into. As for my comment on limited PCIe<br>
ports above - a bit of googling shows there are actually quite a few<br>
multiple PCIe boards out there now.<br>
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BillK<br>
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