Dear Beowulfers, I came back to doing product-research on jumbo-framed switches, since I need to get one for our cluster. Since our cluster is primaraly load-balancing (nobody runs MPI), for now I just bridged few nodes through the other nodes 2nd interface (I didn't use them for bonding).
Now we are about to extend a cluster a bit and I hate my bridging solution so I am in the market for relatively good, inexpensive 48-port switch (we need at least 30 ports for now) with Jumbo frames support (which supposed to help NFS server). Browsing the web I've found http://www.dlink.com/products/?model=DGS-1248T&sec=2 which seems to be of a right price tag and claims to support jumbo frames (and I doubt that I really need managed switch for internal cluster network :-)). Strange enough the online comparison to managed switches on the same page ftp://ftp10.dlink.com/pdfs/products/switches/dlink_websmart_vs_L2_4_managed_switches.pdf shows that it DGS-1248T doesn't support Jumbo frames. I am waiting on reply from D-Link presales which could clarify this issue. Unfortunately this model wasn't investigated by http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joe/jumbo-clean-gear.html so I am not sure on how reliable claim on Jumbo frames support of this particular piece. Can anyone recommend any other suitable product? Thank you in advance! -- .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Keep in touch // \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User ^^-^^ [175555]
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