[AusNOG] Switching Recommendations

[Gaurab Raj Upadhaya]

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On 7/14/13 11:53 PM, Lincoln Dale wrote:

> Most 1GE switches have anemic buffers which results in
> less-than-stellar performance if you drive them hard, have bursts
> or incast traffic. Alas, this doesn't even figure in most people's
> knowledge/requests when it comes it networking.

+1.

<insert favourite model) switches from most vendors would probably
meet Joseph's requirements. And in most cases, the pizzabox switches
are probably all using the same/similar chipset (give or take).  What
you probably want to look at is under the hood, when you drive them
all at port speed. how they handle traffic flows, lags (long timers,
short timers), uplinks (buffers) etc. etc.  Then you'd like to look at
how the switch behaves with broadcast storms, and multicast traffic
(i.e IPv6 neighbor discovery packets).

I have no favourites, But take a pick form any of these (A,B,C,D,E,F,H,J).

- -gaurab
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