On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > In many cases, it's not even obvious which of the products I find are > suitable for building various types of network switches. Do you know of any > Webpages that might help me rectify my dearth of understanding in this area?
You can get an unmanaged 24-port 10/100/1000 switch for less than $10 per port, and a good managed switch for about $30 per port. A cheap quad-port GB NIC runs $200 or $50 per port; and one from Intel or Cisco which can actually run all of the ports near rated line speed is closer to $100 per port. You simply can't build a commodity PC using these and end up anywhere near the price point of a dedicated switch. Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
