Re: Switch Questions

In article <1124729708.785441.37570@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<bpanders71@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:The Linksys switch I'm looking at is the SRW2016 which indicates
:managed rackmount with webview. Price after rebate is around $375 at
:CDW online.

Indeed, looking at the documentation it does claim to be non-blocking
and managed. (Non-blocking on all ports, though?)


:I configured port trunking on the Procurve by telnetting into the
:switch, and selecting the two ports being used by the NIC team, then I
:configured the group as "Trk1" saved and exited.

Sounds like port aggregation.


:I've heard the cisco products have better throughput, but am not sure I
:can afford the Cisco price. I quickly looked for the Cat2960, but
:haven't come up with anything. Other Recommendations?

Sorry, I misremembered the part number: it is Cat2970 . Unfortunately
the datasheets are mostly missing.

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/si/casi/ps5206/index.shtml
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/si/casi/ps5206/prodlit/c2970_ds.pdf

If you were going for that line, you might find the Cat3560G or
Cat3750G more to your liking; both are "multilayer switches" with
various degrees of routing and QoS and IPv6 capabilities. [Even if you
don't need the features now, if you are looking at the Cat2970,
price-compare against those other models, as the Cat3750G can come out
-less- than some of the others (volume sales, I guess.)]


Anyhow, this presumes that the SRW2016 cannot do the job. I checked
around and there are no public reviews of it that I could find.
Generally speaking, my experience in the past has been that devices
that are several months on the market already and have no public reviews,
tend to have limitations that aren't obvious from reading the spec ***.

If you know a vendor well, perhaps you could get the SRW2016 on trial ?
And if you just want to play around with gigabit topologies and
aren't too worried about high throughput on multiple gigabit ports,
you could get one of those cheap (<$50) unmanaged gigabit switches
and give it a try.
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