[Cialug] Snort in a switched network

[Nathan C. Smith]

I heard recently that some Dell is Netgear with different firmware...?
You have firsthand experience, what do you think?

I've heard people say netgear was the greatest and some say "not so great".
I was talking to somebody recently trying to push 10 Gbits through a Netgear
and they were having trouble with matching speeds/duplex. With another
switch.  Somebody else was saying they did a comparison and found Netgear
did just as well as the others and cost much less.  

Personally, I'm afraid to put netgear in a critical spot at work. I have
several at home now and have given up on anything plastic, like dlink or
linksys.  I'm looking at the adtran family of switches right now.

Sorry about rambling on about all the hearsay.

-Nate


-----Original Message-----
From: David Champion [mailto:dave at visionary.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 12:33 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Snort in a switched network


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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