[Cialug] Snort in a switched network

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

My experience with the Dell switches is that they tend to be picky about
gb nic's, For example, my little baby 8 port gb switch didn't like the
Dlink nic's but it played nice with the Intel's.

:) Dave

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 12:32, David Champion wrote:
> Speaking of switches... I'm loooking at getting a good but not too 
> expensive 10/100/1000 managed switch. I'm leaning towards the Netgear 
> GS724T :
> 
> http://www.netgear.com/products/details/GS724T.php
> 
> Newegg has them for $322.
> 
> The other one I was thinking about is the Dell 3424:
> 
> http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pwcnt_3424?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
> 
> They're $374 (retail price).
> 
> I've also used some Nortel / Baystack 10/100 switches, which were very 
> good, but they're a bit pricey on their gigabit equipment still. They 
> are over twice as much as either of the options above. Netgear is owned 
> by the same people, but on the surface anyway, it looks like they've 
> kept the products seperate.
> 
> I've had bad experiences with HP and 3Com networking equipment, so I'd 
> like to stay away from them.
> 
> Anyone have any experience with these? I'm currently running a mix of 
> Dell & Netgear, and both of them have been very well behaved.
> 
> -dc
> 
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