Thanks for all your input so far.
Regaring the Cat4k range - a C4948 would be an option if I could spend all the money upfront, I don't think we can invest that much right now. Regarding the EX2200 - IIRC it is very restricted in terms of L3 features and forwarding (and the price once again). Regarding the Cisco SBS - I have to take a look at those again, maybe something there fits our needs. Regarding "routing" vs "switching" - I'd like to do routing between VLANs (and basic ACLs) on the switch and hand off anything more complex to a (linux or *BSD based) software router. That includes routing at least our guest traffic via some kind of VPN service to get rid of most . I don't think microbursts are that much of a problem for us. I at least don't see them impacting the VM host sending a backup to the file server, or even several of us pushing photos/videos from an event we attended onto the owncloud instance. (If anyone however has some nice article that I should read on microbursts feel free to send a link my way.) Greetings, Markus _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
