From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 20 20:47:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0984F14C49 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:47:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tim@futuresouth.com) Received: (from tim@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA21247; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 22:46:38 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 22:46:37 -0600 From: Tim Tsai To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price Message-ID: <19991220224637.A20946@futuresouth.com> References: <199912190410.UAA01049@apollo.backplane.com> <385C789C.DD290597@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > something like this (which is fine...), but I was wondering how > much one has to fork out before you get extra options like a > port-mirroring capability... You usually find this capability on managed switches (fairly obvious, since you need a management interface to configure port mirroring). This usually means SNMP capable too. So do your regular search on a managed switch or SNMP capable switch and chances are it will do what you want. Allied Telesyn probably has the lowest price managed switch I've seen but I think Netgear has one too. I am too lazy to dig up information at the moment - let me know if you have trouble finding them. Best bang for the buck category: HP ProCurve 4000M. 40 switched 10/100 ports (that's with the chassis half filled). $1499 (with a $400 HP rebate) from www.warehouse.com. Try not to buy up all the inventory because we're going to need one or two soon. :-) Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message