Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:56:58 -0400 From: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> To: 'Ralph Forsythe' <rforsythe@centerone.com>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: RE: HP 4000M switch question Message-ID: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533701022B72@mail.sandvine.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Ralph Forsythe [mailto:rforsythe@centerone.com] > Sent: October 1, 2002 21:51 > To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org > Subject: HP 4000M switch question > > > I'm currently in the market for a switch, minimum 24 ports. > Based on the > features I need, the Cisco 2924XL seemed like a good choice, plus I'm > familiar withalmost all Cisco gear. However recent searches > on eBay have > turned up HP ProCurve 4000M switches ready to go with 40 > ports for around > $4-500, which is of course quite cheap for the port density I > get out of it. > We use them extensively, have for 5 years, probably have 30 of them. We used to use them in a multicast MPEG-2 video application, ~2Gbps of bandwidth. Have found them to be very reliable and easy to manage. Yes they support a 'span' (a monitoring port), which can be joined to any one port on the switch. They support only 32 VLANs (any vlan numbers, but only 32 at a time). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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