2013/12/9 Eugeniu Patrascu <[email protected]>: >> >> We just founded a hacker space [1] and are about to setup our home. For a >> few rooms full of people making and creating things and working on nerdy >> stuff you need a good networking infrastructure. So I have come to the >> following requirements: >> >> Fully managed, layer 3 and IPv6 capable switch(es) with 48 ports in total, >> at least 24 of them gigabit. >>
> > If you are not going to run all the ports at wire speed and also require > high packet rates between two subnets, you can get HP gigabit switches > (they have lifetime warranty) pretty cheap and a small Linux system with a > few GigE interfaces and run that as a router. It's not the most nice > looking solution but it will do the job on the cheap and also provide lots > of options later one (firewall, packet capture etc). +1. As this is for a hackerspace, you should be able to source some networking skills to set up and maintain a software router, that will be much more flexible (read: anything your members want to implement) than a L3 switch. -- pierre _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
