[c-nsp] Cisco 3750G vs. HP Procurve

[ilia p]

On 3/24/06, matthew zeier <mrz at velvet.org> wrote:
>
> It's been suggested that the Procurve may be a good, cheaper,
> alternative to the 3750G however, I don't have any experience with HP
> switches.l
>
avoid using procurve switches in dual homed environment where multiple
vlans are configured. Look at their manual , "VLAN Restrictions"
section: "... Duplicate MAC addresses on different VLANs are not
supported and can cause VLAN operating problems...." .
Otherwise the switch is not bad (for the price), it is just not your
datacenter access switch.



> The 3750Gs are acting as access switches and only doing L2 but I wanted
> to take advantage of the stacking and cross-stack port-channeling.  Each
> stack of two members will uplink to two 6509s on a 4x1Gbps port-channel
> (two from each member then).
>
> Anyone have any experience or comments?  Thanks.
>
> I's also being suggested that I look at Juniper...
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ilia