<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">additional comment on procurve switches:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">If you want to authenticate more than
one client on a port you need multidomain authentication support. This
is available on hp3500yl and up(comparable with cisco 3500 series i think)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">the 26xx is indeed a good cheap poe
switch(only 10/100 but that should be enough for poe application)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Almost all managed procurve switches
support the same security features(certainly from 26xx and up), so that
makes it easier to combine different models in your network without sacrificing
security.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">most of the difference is in port speed
and routing functions and whether it is chassis based or not.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I can also recommend the 5400 chassis
based switch. largest model can handle 12 modules(also available in 6 modules)
which you can fill. cat5 modules for this switch are always 10/100/1000
with poe or modules for mini-gbics(chassis itself is quite cheap, and modules
are also ok but only interesting if you have centralized cabling).</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">one disadvantage of the procurves is
that they don't support "hardware" stacking(for procurve stacking
is only a management feature) to built a virtual chassis with a high speed
backbone link between 2 or more switches(i think cisco has models that
can do this, but also not all).</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">regards,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Stieven Struyf<br>
M.I.S. Division - System Operations <br>
Komatsu Europe International NV<br>
Mechelsesteenweg 586<br>
B-1800 Vilvoorde<br>
Stieven.Struyf@komatsu.eu<br>
Tel. +32 (0)2 2552551<br>
<br>
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting
than the question of whether a submarine can swim." -- E. W. Dijkstra</font>
<br><tt><font size=2>freeradius-users-bounces+stieven.struyf=komatsu.eu@lists.freeradius.org
wrote on 13-07-2007 11:54:25:<br>
<br>
> Jacob Jarick wrote:<br>
> > Thanks very much for that information, shall follow up on it
:)<br>
> ><br>
> > On 7/13/07, *Stieven.Struyf@komatsu.eu <br>
> > <mailto:Stieven.Struyf@komatsu.eu>* < Stieven.Struyf@komatsu.eu
<br>
> > <mailto:Stieven.Struyf@komatsu.eu>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Jacob<br>
> > I use procurve switches and i'm quite happy with
them. Price is<br>
> > almost half of cisco prices(and lifetime warranty).(although
i<br>
> > have already seen cisco match hp prices for large
purchases if you<br>
> > mention procurve)<br>
> > Until previous firmware version they even suppported
cisco p<br>
> > protocols (and open standard). Now they moved to
open standards.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> Yep Second Vote for HP Procurves, any of the 26** support dynamic
VLAN <br>
> assignment, they also have a really neat feature for authenticating
<br>
> admin users on their ssh, web, consol interfaces using RADIUS with
<br>
> failover to local...<br>
> Full accounting support, Mac based authentication, supplicant port
mode <br>
> (where the port on one hp can authenticate to another)... Loads more
<br>
> stuff like filtering and ingress bandwidth limiting using VSAs.<br>
> These also have a nice feature called OpenVLAN, where the switch can
<br>
> drop people with broken supplicants into an arbitrary vlan, where
you <br>
> can provide resources to help fix their supplicant software.</font></tt><pre>
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