Gigabit Switch

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

One key element to look at is fabric speed.  If the backplane can't keep 
up to wire-speeds, you're going to suffer some slowdown and latencies 
associated with the network.  Whether that's a problem in your 
installation, or not, we can't tell from this range.  However, if 
there's sufficient money I'd be buying the most capable switch I could 
from a backplane and port sustainability point as I could.

gerry

Keyan Mehravaran wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am planning to connect 8 dual Xeon PCs
> with onboard gigabit through a switch and
> I only need access to the "zeroth" node.
> I have two questions:
> 
> 1) Is there any benefit to using "managed"
>    switch rather than the "unmanaged" ones?
> 
> 2) Is it possible to increase bandwidth by
>    adding an extra gigabit NIC to each node?
>    If the answer is yes, then should all the
>    16 ports connect to the same switch?
> 
> Please advise.
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> Kian Mehravaran
> Research Assistant
> 4110 Engineering
> Michigan State University
> East Lansing, MI 48823 
> 
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