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

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Bogdan Costescu wrote:

> On 4 Sep 2003, Craig Tierney wrote:
> 
> > I haven't tried it yet, but the 12 and 24 port gigE switches from
> > Dell look attractive.  The switches provide full bandwidth and have
> > several other good features.
> 
> Except the management interface which I find horrible. Well, comparing it 
> with the 3Com SuperStack and BayNetworks switches that I have...

The dells have a kind of brain-dead cisco-style cli. if you've used 
cat-ios you'll mostly be slightly annoyed by the things it doesn't do, 
if you're not a cat-ios user it'll probably just anoy the heck out of 
you... The switches themselves are made by accton for what it's worth.
 
> Have you tested the bandwidth or is there some published test about this ?
> I don't have enough GigE nodes to fill one... The documentation implies 
> that there are 2 chips inside each responsible for 12 ports. I wasn't 
> worried about on-chip communication, but inter-chip one.

the 24 port models are two broadcom 5690's connected back to back using 
the 10Gb/s xaui port on each core.
 
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