On Feb 6, 2008 9:38 PM, Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 6, 2008, at 9:28 PM, Sherwood Botsford wrote: > > 2. I figure there is less likely to be gotchas if all my core > > switches are from the same vendor. What vendors do you recommend > > for inexpensive switches. > > Go used, but find something easily replaceable (either as a whole in > quantity or per module, e.g. HP ProCurve 400M). > > > Cautionary tales? >
I have one. At a previous place, the NotWork Engineer [TM] managed to convince management to let him buy some extreme switches from ebay, let him _resell_ it back to the company, and then the company can call extreme up to buy warranty on them. So he bought a huge batch of extreme switches for a damned good price. They started dying. Called extreme up to look at warranty options. Extreme asked for serial numbers. It turns out that the batch Mr. NotWork Engineer bought were part of a bad batch of hardware. Extreme declined to sell warranty for those switches. Also, apparently there are people selling fake cisco boxes on ebay. So, original poster, if you know what you're buying, and if you do not require warranty, go ebay. Else, I'd follow Douglas and Jason's advice. Do you _need_ that, or do you _want_ that? Nowadays, netgear, dlink, linksys makes some decent and cheap switches. If all you need is 3-4 ports a class room, you don't even need to pull lots of cables back to your switch closet, one is enough. -- http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk "This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -- Gene Spafford learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1G-3laJJP0&feature=related
