From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jul 14 4:32:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from devils.maquina.com (devils.maquina.com [62.229.71.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB66437C155 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 04:32:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gabriel@maquina.com) Received: from localhost (gabriel@localhost) by devils.maquina.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA35146; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:31:59 +0100 (WEST) (envelope-from gabriel@maquina.com) X-Authentication-Warning: devils.maquina.com: gabriel owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:31:59 +0100 (WEST) From: Jose Gabriel Marcelino To: Chris Dillon Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gigabit recommendations In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi! > > Note I only mentioned 3Com here, these are the only ones I could get some > > info on. I'd be very happy to know other good, trustworthy brands you are > > using (I think Cisco may be very expensive but I haven't found the correct > > model yet...) > > The 3COM switches are all over-priced CRAP. Go with Cisco or HP > ProCurve, which should cost the same or less, respectively, and offer > better performance and features. I'm speaking entirely from > experience. :-) I was somewhat expecting that response on 3Com products :) I looked really well into HP and Cisco and I was very surprised to find that the Cisco really is less expensive than 3Com here. The HP one looks nice too, I'm amazed to find a HP product that looks good (and is recommended) after all the mess I've seen with all the brain-damaged Jetdirect printer modules (the printers themselves aren't too good either) and the brain-damaGING HP-UX boxes I've unfortunately had to support :) Thanks a lot for your advice! Regards Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message