From owner-freebsd-security Sat Aug 21 22:36:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92BF014A14 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 22:36:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA80627; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 00:35:50 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 00:35:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: Wes Peters Cc: Cliff Skolnick , Bigby Findrake , jay d , "Rodney W. Grimes" , Evren Yurtesen , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multiple machines in the same network In-Reply-To: <37BE35AE.23088FB2@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > Check out http://www.shopper.com/prdct/721/192.html for a head start on your > shopping. ;^) > Indeed, nice stuff. :-) > > For a better price/port, see http://www.shopper.com/prdct/768/063.html > These guys are very hard to beat -- for a few more months. ;^) > HP is lowballing everybody on price with this switch. In case you're wondering, there's also a $400 rebate on top of that already-low price. I'm buying one of these puppies next week to see how it works out. Pretty hard to pass up a 40-port 10/100 switch with pretty good expandability for only $1400. Lifetime warranty, too(!). The only Gotcha I've found by looking at the specs is that it only has a 3.8Gbit/sec backplane. This is only enough to keep 19 100mbit ports saturated at full duplex, but you're also paying less money for this 40-port switch than most other halfway-decent 24-port switches. I wonder if local switching takes place on each of the "blades" (expansion modules). I still think its worth the money even with the limited backplane. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures (SPARC under development). ( http://www.freebsd.org ) "One should admire Windows users. It takes a great deal of courage to trust Windows with your data." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message