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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: 10/100 low-end switches [was: Re: via chipset and SMP]
In-Reply-To: <20001117193259.B49176@myhakas.matti.ee> from Vallo Kallaste at "Nov 17, 2000 07:32:59 pm"
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Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 12:01:24 +0100 (CET)
Cc: freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (Rodney W. Grimes),
	keichii@peorth.iteration.net (Michael C . Wu),
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It seems Vallo Kallaste wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 08:08:10AM -0800, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> 
> > There ``low cost'' 10/100 switches are junk, they make some nicer
> > switches using BroadCOM chips, again, probably some of the better
> > 10/100 switch chips on the market. 
> 
> Can you, as hardware geek, advise us what low-end 10/100 switches
> are worth of buy? It took me several weeks to shout down the lowend
> D-Link switches we had in sight some time ago. We're now running
> some 12-port SMC's, they're cheap..

I just bought a RubyTech  SH8008RM 8 port 10/100 switch for ~ 90US$
works like a charm, nicely built, bargain if you ask me...

-Søren


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