Hi everyone,
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So after thinking it over a bit more, i'm thinking it's probably best to replace the 2970G and the dell. I'm leaning towards a cisco 3750g-24t-s as the 2970G replacement, and something cheap and fanless to replace the dell. The dell has to go because it is having issues and just doesn't have quite the feature set required. Does anyone have any recommendations for a powerconnect 2716 replacement that at least has a little bigger feature set for managing vlans? I can get away with as little at 10 ports.
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I'm looking for a quiet (fanless) 16-24 port L3 switch mainly to handle interVlan routing in my home network. I'm going to be replacing an aging dell powerconnect 2716 "smart" switch. I need to be able to handle interVlan routing at gigabit line speed (I do not want to use my router for this). I'm most familiar with cisco IOS and prefer to stick with that however i'm unaware of any fanless models outside of the SG300 range that are L3? Also, the SG300 doesn't run IOS which makes it far less appealing to me. This switch will be trunked to an existing cisco 2970G which is also trunked to a mikrotik l2 switch and various "dumb" switches in other rooms.
It doesn't need to be a cisco device, the biggest requirements are silent operation, speed, reliability and if not IOS extremely good documentation. I'm plenty happy to grab something used, any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
*edit*
So after thinking it over a bit more, i'm thinking it's probably best to replace the 2970G and the dell. I'm leaning towards a cisco 3750g-24t-s as the 2970G replacement, and something cheap and fanless to replace the dell. The dell has to go because it is having issues and just doesn't have quite the feature set required. Does anyone have any recommendations for a powerconnect 2716 replacement that at least has a little bigger feature set for managing vlans? I can get away with as little at 10 ports.
*original post*
I'm looking for a quiet (fanless) 16-24 port L3 switch mainly to handle interVlan routing in my home network. I'm going to be replacing an aging dell powerconnect 2716 "smart" switch. I need to be able to handle interVlan routing at gigabit line speed (I do not want to use my router for this). I'm most familiar with cisco IOS and prefer to stick with that however i'm unaware of any fanless models outside of the SG300 range that are L3? Also, the SG300 doesn't run IOS which makes it far less appealing to me. This switch will be trunked to an existing cisco 2970G which is also trunked to a mikrotik l2 switch and various "dumb" switches in other rooms.
It doesn't need to be a cisco device, the biggest requirements are silent operation, speed, reliability and if not IOS extremely good documentation. I'm plenty happy to grab something used, any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
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