HP Procurves are a good line of switches, and often come with a full lifetime warranty. I also like Juniper, but those tend to be more expensive, although often more capable than the HPs.
It's my policy (as a networking professional) to *always* buy managed switches. Doing this can give you a great deal of insight into what's happening on your network - the ability to use SNMP and a span/mirror port will give you the ability to monitor and diagnose traffic. Without the management, you'll be at least partially blind, which is not a good place to reside. Which switch you get will depend on what your network load will be - you didn't characterize that in your post, so it's hard to say exactly what level of performance you need. If all you need is 100mbit for each machine, getting a fully gigabit capable switch will be overkill, but if you'll be pushing lots of data between the machines (you did say "cluster", after all), then getting one that's gigabit across all ports is a necessity. Kurt On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Kenward Vaughan <kay_...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Sorry about the topic, but when I had asked a question before about trying > to tie into a wireless network through a pfSense box, your answers to what > turned out to be another OT question actually led our IS group to give me > full VPN access to the outside world. I will be putting a pfSense box on > our end of that connection. Thanks again for that help! > > As was apparent in that post I am pretty ignorant of networking details, but > do know that sometime in the near future I will be looking for a decent > network switch to tie 10-11 dual cpu machines together into a cluster. > Would anyone have a thought as to a good switch for this? > > The machines will have the Intel i210 Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet controller, > if that makes any difference. > > Appreciate any thoughts! Thanks! > > > Kenward > -- > In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be > *teachers* and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, > because passing civilization along from one generation to the next > ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone > could have. - Lee Iacocca > > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > List@lists.pfsense.org > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
