[GTALUG] Samsung router?

[Alvin Starr]

On 8/28/19 3:30 PM, o1bigtenor wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 9:48 AM Alvin Starr via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>> On 8/28/19 10:26 AM, James Knott via talk wrote:
>>> On 2019-08-28 09:50 AM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
>>>
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>> Also in over 20 years of running networks for people the only switches
>> to ever have a port go bad have been Cisco.
>>
> Hopefully this isn't considered a thread hijacking - - - but - - - -
> is there any linux software for running a managed switch?
>
> You are indicating that Cisco is perhaps not a great choice - - - - do
> you have any recommendations? (Hopefully not ones that are seriously
> 'ouch' in the price department - -  - grin.)
Strangely lots managed switches are actually running linux.
Broadcom ships a packaged software stack for their chipset and a number 
of manufacturers take that and just rebrand it.

FS.com comes to mind.
They have a 48port 1G managed switch with 4 10G uplink ports for $544

They have cheapish for 10G switches  at  4K unloaded or 8K with Cumulus 
linux.

I have had some really good luck with D-link manages switches over the 
years and  also recently with netgear.
Some of the newer netgear switches support openflow so you should be 
able to create an SDN network if you want.


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