Network equipment (was: Tuning NFS)

[Bill McGonigle]

On Aug 25, 2006, at 10:47, Ben Scott wrote:

>  I'm currently looking strongly at HP ProCurve (2600 and 2800
> series).  Good rep.  Lifetime warranty with next-business-day advanced
> part replacement.
>
>  Cisco and Nortel both have a good rep, but they're also hard to buy
> and rather expensive (fiendishly so for Cisco).

The HP's seem to work fine.  I have a few clients with them and they 
don't complain.

I can't say enough good things about Cisco switches but the big 
downsides are price and you pay for IOS security updates.

I've only bought one new Cisco switch in the past 3 years - that was 
for an All-Gig-E switch.  For 10/100 gear I highly recommend buying 
refurbished Cisco from a company like Recurrent <steve at recurrent.com) - 
you can get into a 24-port  "Enterprise Image" switch for somewhere in 
the $500 range with a 1-year warranty and current IOS.  So far only one 
of the units I've received have come in defective and none of them have 
gone bad over that period of time, so rather than get a 20-year 
warranty (which is really just insurance), we self-insure with a spare 
or two onsite.

-Bill

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