On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Jerry wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:37:14 -0700
Chuck Swiger <cswi...@mac.com> articulated:
On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
In many cases, it's not even obvious which of the products I find
are suitable for building various types of network switches. Do
you know of any Webpages that might help me rectify my dearth of
understanding in this area?
You can get an unmanaged 24-port 10/100/1000 switch for less than $10
per port, and a good managed switch for about $30 per port.
A cheap quad-port GB NIC runs $200 or $50 per port; and one from
Intel or Cisco which can actually run all of the ports near rated
line speed is closer to $100 per port. You simply can't build a
commodity PC using these and end up anywhere near the price point of
a dedicated switch.
I wouldn't think the OP was interested in saving money, there are
other reasons for building your own switch. For example, there is
a famous article "Tricks you can do if your firewall is also
a bridge":
http://www.usenix.org/events/neta99/full_papers/limoncelli/limoncelli_html/
Dan Feenberg
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