[ot] Buying a new gigabit switch for home use

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 12:37 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 12:51 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 12:28 -0600, Michael Hipp wrote:
> > > Mike Reinehr wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 23 December 2006 05:24, Man-wai CHANG wrote:
> > > >> Is 3Com still a reliable brand? Or some other brands?
> > > > 
> > > > I just purchased a Netgear GS605 10/100/1000Mbps switch for under $40. It was 
> > > > well rated, easy to set up & attractive. So far (about a week) it seems to be 
> > > > doing well.
> > > > 
> > > > I used to be happy with 3Com but they haven't seemed to be competitive lately.
> > > 
> > > I recently upgraded a client to all GB stuff using D-Link. All seems to 
> > > be working well. Noticeable speed improvement over 10/100 on large file 
> > > transfers.
> > 
> > We have a gbit d-link switch that does not allow NFS mounts over
> > connections that are not gbit (say, 100 mbit). It is true. Just swap out
> > the d-link switch, and all works. Lost a few hours on that one. So,
> > d-link switches are lower on our list these days. I can forward the
> > exact model number if anyone is interested. 
> 
> Is that thing blocking ports, like a firewall?? Can you config it?
> Sounds like it's doing exactly that. Ric'

No config at all. Just the proverbial black box. What was really
confusing was that I had two similar clients (both running ThinStation)
that needed to mount the NFS shares. One worked and one did not. The
only real difference was the network speed on one client. DHCP and tftp
allowed it to boot. I could ssh to it, and the initial NFS interaction
seemed to work. But it would not complete the NFS access. Switched to a
netgear box and all magically started working.




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