Tracy R Reed wrote:
What is a "routing switch"? You mean I can put an IP on the thing and set my boxes gateway to it? The 2626 seems to go for $1800 new if it is the 10/100Mb POE managed switch that I am thinking of. Anyone here sell these things new and willing to make me a deal? As I mentioned in my previous email there is a good chance we will be replacing our dying Linksys gear. Probably only buy a couple at first but we have 4 Linksys switches which will probably be needing replacement.
That's the same switch. 24 port 10/100, 2 port gig, PoE option, and two SFP slots for fibre transceivers (to use in lieu of the two gig ports).
And yes, a routing switch, or multilayer switch, is one to which you can set a management IP and have it route packets. It's ideal for doing inter- and intra-VLAN routing.
Procurves are definitely a good buy for the price you pay. But, keep in mind that they don't have all the features that, say, a Cisco 3560 might have (3560 is a current Cisco product roughly equivalent to the 2626). Bascially, you get 16 static routes with the Procurve (sufficient for most small businesses), whereas you get dynamic routing protocols and a whole bunch of other L3 stuff, QoS, etc. with the Cisco product. If you don't need that though, then procurves are fine. The OS is also very similar between the two products.
Cheers, -kelsey -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
