From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jul 14 12:10:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from gabriel.schoolpeople.net (gabriel.schoolpeople.net [216.34.170.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32CED37B6B1 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:10:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brandon@schoolpeople.net) Received: from triangulata (cs2887-130.austin.rr.com [24.28.87.130]) by gabriel.schoolpeople.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA75331; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:10:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brandon@schoolpeople.net) Message-ID: <001601bfedc7$ba2c3f40$82571c18@austin.rr.com> From: "Brandon S. DeYoung" To: "Jose Gabriel Marcelino" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Gigabit recommendations Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:14:24 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Something worth taking a look at for a switch is the Dlink 5600: http://www.dlink.com/products/switches/des5600/ I've got one of these, it works like a charm and is a whole lot cheaper than anything even remotely comparable from Cisco or 3Com. ~Brandon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jose Gabriel Marcelino" To: "Chris Dillon" Cc: Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 6:31 AM Subject: Re: Gigabit recommendations > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message