Hardware Recommendations for LTSP

[Jeff Mings]

Just wanted to let you know that I'm using one of the cheapie switches 
-Dlink 10/100 8port (along with a 3com 10/100 16-port hub), and it's 
been trouble-free.  I couldn't believe how fast the multi-gigabyte 
backups went after switching from 10baseT to full-duplex 100baseT.  
Surprisingly, products by Linksys, another cheapie brand that I usually 
buy because their NICs are advertised as Linux-compatible, have been 
remarkably trouble-free.  Linksys has given me fewer headaches than the 
3com NICs.

-Jeff

Warren Togami wrote:

> I need to buy 10/100 ethernet switches, high capacity tape drives for the
> Linux Terminal Servers that I will be putting into several schools.  Any
> recommendations on these pieces of hardware?
> 
> For the switches I don't need any management features like disabling ports.
> I'm aware that the generics will probably flake out at high capacity, but
> thin client traffic should not go anywhere near those levels.
> 
> I've been looking at:
> 3Com 10/100 24port unmanaged about $600
> SMC 10/100 24port unmanaged about $170
> 
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