Looking for switch recommendations ...

[Steven Stremciuc]

Has anyone tested port mirroring on these switches (2524) and run into 
any problems? Many people seem to recommend these ProCurve switches here 
and so far they seem like a great buy (only one I saw that cheap that 
does 802.1x). I'm also looking for a managed switch (probably something 
off ebay) and would like to find something that does port mirroring 
nicely as I'd like to play with that in the future. I saw Dell's 
Powerconnect 3348 has some problems with port mirroring and am trying to 
avoid getting a switch where the feature is listed as supported but 
doesn't work as expected.

Info about the 3348's problems: 
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=pc_managed&message.id=1425

Steve Stremciuc

Gunnarsson, Mikael wrote:

>You don't mention if you need gigabit speeds on all ports, so I'll assume you don't.
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>The HP ProCurve 2524 (or 2512 if you really only want 12 ports, but the price difference is minimal) is a very nice and stable switch. We have about 95-100 2524 switches on the access level here, and I am yet to experience a fault that originated in the actual switch. It has 24 (or 12) 10/100 ports and two module slots for gigabit links. It's manageable via serial console, telnet, web or snmp (and rmon too, I think) and has all the bells and whistles you expect from a manageble switch (plenty of monitoring, spanning tree, vlan support, etc..)
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>They're rather cheap nowadays, over here they go for 3500 SEK (approx. $450) .. It's one of HP's big sellers, so they have dropped quite a lot in price lately.
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>Mvh
>Mikael Gunnarsson
>Octapharma AB / IT
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-freebsd-net at freebsd.org
>>[mailto:owner-freebsd-net at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier
>>Sent: den 26 mars 2004 17:05
>>To: freebsd-net at freebsd.org
>>Subject: Looking for switch recommendations ...
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>>I'm looking at replacing my el'cheapo switch with something 
>>better that
>>will allow me to fix my issues with the em/full-duplex problem ...
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>>I'm looking for ssomething managed, as well as SNMP aware so 
>>that I can
>>tie it into Zabbix for monitoring ... something 8 or 12 port 
>>preferred.
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>>Cisco, of course, is always a big name ... but also expensive ... oen
>>recommendation is the xl 1900, but I can't find any specs on her at
>>cisco's site, so discontinued product?
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>>What about Netgear, which I have easy access to?  Or Alcatel?
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>>models to stay away from?
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>>Thanks ...
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>>Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services 
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