From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jun 17 16:10:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ams2eusosrv16.ams.ops.eu.uu.net (ams2eusosrv16.ams.ops.eu.uu.net [146.188.99.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70A0837B826 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 16:09:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mroorda@eu.uu.net) Received: from anocserve1.ams.ops.eu.uu.net by ams2eusosrv16.ams.ops.eu.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: anocserve1.ams.ops.eu.uu.net [146.188.99.69]) id QQiuam14817 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 23:09:53 GMT Received: from localhost by anocserve1.ams.ops.eu.uu.net with SMTP (peer crosschecked as: mroorda@localhost) id QQiuam23105 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 01:09:53 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: X-Organization: UUNET, EMEA Network Services X-Address: J. Muyskenweg 22, 1097 CJ Amsterdam, The netherlands X-Phone: +31 20 711 6000 X-Fax: +31 20 711 6001 X-Mailer: MH 6.8.4 X-ncc-regid: nl.nlnet From: Anne Marcel Roorda To: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cheap Spanning Tree Bridge/Switch? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 17 Jun 2000 17:50:35 CDT." <394C00BB.47CA6288@inc.net> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 01:09:53 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > > > anyone know of an inexpensive bridge or switch that supports spanning t ree > > > with 2-5 ports? > > > > Netgear makes some great low cost switches www.netgear.com > > Unfortunately there's no mention of spanning tree on the web pages. I've > looked around a bit, and none of the inexpensive switches I've seen so > far have supported STP. > > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no Yeah, Netgear's technical docs are very lacking.. I swear I saw it mentioned somewhere in regards to their higher end switches (the 5xx).. Hmmmmm.... Not too much else out there besides some Cisco or maybe Bay,3com (Ick).. You may want to consider looking at nbase, just don't forget to hook it up to a remote power switch. - marcel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message