On 8/28/19 3:30 PM, o1bigtenor wrote:
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 9:48 AM Alvin Starr via talk <[email protected]> wrote:
On 8/28/19 10:26 AM, James Knott via talk wrote:
On 2019-08-28 09:50 AM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
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Also in over 20 years of running networks for people the only switches
to ever have a port go bad have been Cisco.
Hopefully this isn't considered a thread hijacking - - - but - - - -
is there any linux software for running a managed switch?
You are indicating that Cisco is perhaps not a great choice - - - - do
you have any recommendations? (Hopefully not ones that are seriously
'ouch' in the price department - - - grin.)
Strangely lots managed switches are actually running linux.
Broadcom ships a packaged software stack for their chipset and a number
of manufacturers take that and just rebrand it.
FS.com comes to mind.
They have a 48port 1G managed switch with 4 10G uplink ports for $544
They have cheapish for 10G switches at 4K unloaded or 8K with Cumulus
linux.
I have had some really good luck with D-link manages switches over the
years and also recently with netgear.
Some of the newer netgear switches support openflow so you should be
able to create an SDN network if you want.
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