On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Wes Peters wrote:
> Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> >
> > At 11:18 PM -0700 12/18/99, Wes Peters wrote:
> > >Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > > > Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to
> > > > get rid of my HUBs, I was constantly having to deal with packet loss
> > > > when running saturation tests and never able to figure out what
> > > > was causing it.
> > >
> > >Switches are a better solution, no doubt about it. They are well worth
> > >the cost, even if you're just trying to pep up an old 10Base-T network.
> > >Investing in 10Base-T switches at this time is a false economy; for only
> > >a few dollars more per port you can get 10/100 switches like yours and
> > >upgrade machines to Fast Ethernet as budget allows.
> >
> > Getting back to the topic of switches, I've recently bought three
> > different "reasonably cheap" 10/100 switches for some testing.
> > One thing I would have liked to have had was an option to "mirror"
> > the traffic of one port on some other port.
> > [...] but I was wondering how
> > much one has to fork out before you get extra options like a
> > port-mirroring capability...
>
> Lots more, in terms of dollars. For this, you need at least a managed
> switch, and probably a smart switch. I know for a fact this one, a
> 24-port 10Base-T switch with 2 10/100 uplink ports, supports port mirroring
> and hundreds of other features -- about $1100:
>
> http://shopper.cnet.com/shopping/resellers/1,10231,0-11726-311-1459828-3,00.html?tag=st.sh.11726-311-1459828.sort.price
>
You can get more from the HP Procurve 4000s for a little more money. You
can buy them for $1500 (after a $400 rebate). 40 100BaseTX ports, with 5
open slots for more 8 port carts (we have some with 80 ports) or for
gigabit cards (have two like this). We've got about 18 of these
installed--they work great, and we haven't had autosense problems like we
have with some other switches. Does port mirroring, trunking, IP
multicast, VLANs, etc.
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.asp?EDC=126119
No connection with HP, except for being happy with this switch.
-Chris
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