I just picked up an 8 port 10/100/1000t Micronet SP668B switch a few weeks ago, on sale for cad$180 or so. Its regular price is cad$234 (from ncix.com), or about usd$180.
Anyway, its major plus (to me) is serial port-based management and support for 802.1q vLAN tagging, port bundling (like Cisco EtherChannel), port mirroring (if you wanted to use an Intrusion Detection System), auto MDI/MDI-X, etc. It also comes with ears to mount it on a standard 19" rack.
Sadly, no jumbo packet support is mentioned.
I was shocked to find a switch this cheap that supports 802.1q. Makes creating DMZs off your firewall quite easy, as well as storage, management and production traffic vLANs, should you desire making those things.;) I have such vLANs in my home server room, and this makes it easy to extend those vLANs to my downstairs workroom.
For such an inexpensive switch to offer vLAN tagging, it is no longer a question of why use vLANs in your home network but why not!
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I just picked up an 8 port 10/100/1000t Micronet SP668B switch a few weeks ago, on sale for cad$180 or so. Its regular price is cad$234 (from ncix.com), or about usd$180.
Anyway, its major plus (to me) is serial port-based management and support for 802.1q vLAN tagging, port bundling (like Cisco EtherChannel), port mirroring (if you wanted to use an Intrusion Detection System), auto MDI/MDI-X, etc. It also comes with ears to mount it on a standard 19" rack.
Sadly, no jumbo packet support is mentioned.I was shocked to find a switch this cheap that supports 802.1q. Makes creating DMZs off your firewall quite easy, as well as storage, management and production traffic vLANs, should you desire making those things. ;) I have such vLANs in my home server room, and this makes it easy to extend those vLANs to my downstairs workroom.
For such an inexpensive switch to offer vLAN tagging, it is no longer a question of why use vLANs in your home network but why not!