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Home Lab Switch

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Hello [H]ard!

I'm looking at building a small lab for school and for getting some more experience with enterprise technologies, I'm going to be isolating this from my home network that I share with my roommates via a UTM box that I'm building but I need to find a 10/100/1000 switch to use for my lab. I want kind of something in the middle between soho and enterprise, it needs to be managed or smart.

TL;DR - Recommend me a gigabit switch for a home lab.
 
Buy a 6509 (piece it together from stuff on ebay).

If I can do it, you can do it.
 
+1 for the HP recommendation. They provide near Cisco level functionality at nearly 1/3 the cost. Great mid-level switches for any company or lab looking to get high level functionality on the cheap.

We use them at my school district and don't have many issues at all.
 
+1 on a Procurve but a used Cisco 3550 will be a bit more versatile. For a "lab" you don't really need gigabit. Most of my lab runs over 2 Mbit frame-relay with 100 Mbit on the switching side. The only gig connections I have are between my main PC and my HTPC. My $0.02
 
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