All things related to multicast

[Dan Pritts <>]

Hi all,

we're looking to replace the room switches we use at our member meetings.

Currently we use 24-port HPs which are getting flakey with age, but otherwise 
fit the bill fine.

Our ideal replacement switch would have the following feature set:

8x1G copper (5x1G?)
VLANs
robust igmp support
fanless

Finally, we'd like something that has a real management interface, ssh or 
serial or maybe SNMP.  All of the 8-port "managed" switches we've found are 
"web managed", which makes configuring 20 of them pretty tedious.

Oh yeah, we want it cheap too.  :)

One thing that comes to mind is DD-WRT and the other alternate firmware for 
home wireless routers.  I wonder if that firmware manages to add IGMP support 
to the switches built in to these devices.  


Let me know if you know of anything that would fit the bill.  

thanks!

danno
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