ethernet switch recommendation?

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Jarrod Smith wrote:

> I need a 24-port switch with a reasonable backplane fabric that is
> preferably rack-mountable.  I'm interested in getting two of them and trying
> to use channel bonding on a 17-node cluster.  We're using the supermicro
> 1610H, and it has dual Intel NICs onboard.

I've had good experience with Nortel's BayStack 350-24T and 3Com's
SuperStack 3300 XM (without additional ports). They both come in "desktop"
version, but are accompanied by rack mounting brackets and screws.

Sincerely,

Bogdan Costescu

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