Guidance/suggestions for small (6-12 port) gigabit switches and gigabit NICs?

[Jeffrey B. Layton]

Tony,

   SMC recently announced a low-cost 8 port GigE switch that can handle
jumbo frames.

http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?sec=About-SMC&pg=Press-Release-Details&pr_id=129&site=c

They also announced GigE NICs for $30. I don't know about Linux
support. If not, here's a website that some some decent information
about copper GigE:

http://www.cs.uni.edu/~gray/gig-over-copper/


Good Luck!

Jeff

>I'm in the process of putting together another small compute cluster,
>and while I've solved the node configuration issues, I've been unable
>to come to any definitive solutions for networking.  Because of the
>problems I work on (trivial or coarse parallelization, and at the
>most, moderate between-node communication), I've focused on
>copper-based gigabit.
>
>Now the hard part -- can anyone suggest NICs (Intel's e1000 is
>currently leading my list) and switches to uses?  (Netgear
>GS508T/GS108, HP ProCurve 2708, etc...?).  Throughput is of interest,
>though I've got to balance it with price...
>
>Or even better, point to comparison WWW sites?  (I've been looking on
>Google and Tom's, but havn't really found the right query incantation
>yet, sigh...).
>
>best,
>-tony
>  
>

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