Well I'll have a looksy at Dell and thanks for the input, I do like the DPDT and paper clip idea, but i'm not very good at high frequency design yet. JG > > We have a Cisco core switch doing all the Layer 3. We have a mix of > Dell PowerConnect 3448, 3548, 5348, and 5448 switches connecting back > to the Cisco. This 3XXX and 5XXX lines of PowerConnect switches has > been solid, even the PoE versions, and the pricing is more appealing > than the pricing of extreme networks, juniper, transistion networks. > Haven't worked with the 28XX series Dan Rue mentioned, but for the > price it looks like a good bet. > > Had a couple Netgear managed gig switches at a remote location at one > time. Ran fine while I was on site, then started doing flaky things > (dropping from gig to 10 megabit, dropping the connection entirely, > lots of retransmits and errors) a few months down the road. We threw > the cable qualifier on all the structured cables and patch cables and > everything passed, so we replaced the Netgear switches with Dell > PowerConnects and haven't had an issue since. > > > -- > Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us > IT Outhouse Blog Thing | http://www.itouthouse.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100824/f3213656/attachment.htm