Re: Dell power connect switches.

[Iljitsch van Beijnum]

On 20-mei-04, at 22:42, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> If you like the management interface of your Dells then they'll most
> likely perform what you need in the pure "shuffle packets"-area as 
> long as
> you do IPv4 unicast.
> If you want to muck around with multicast, several vlans perhaps 
> leaking
> multicast from one vlan to another, private vlan edge, QoS etc, (mostly
> metro ethernet stuff, for delivering triple play services to 
> subscribers),
> then that's a whole other ballgame.
I've been feeding one of those 7 Mbps worth of multicast traffic on and 
off for the better part of a year without problems. Not sure if it 
snoops, and haven't tried anything else fancy, though.