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- Oct 5, 2008
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- Cumbria (UK)
I am soon to be replacing my old (but reliable) dual Xeon P4 fileserver with this motherboard: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2765&dl=1#ov
It has two NIC's that I would like to link together to obtain a 2gb's link to my switch. The motherboards manual says my switch would need to support IEEE 802.3ad. I am using an old dynamode gigabit switch but it does not have a model number on it so I can't track it down on the net but I'm sure it doesn't the IEEE 802.3ad standard.
So could anyone help me finding a cheap switch that will do the job? (I'm in the UK so please keep that in mind.
It seems a need a "smart" switch and the cheapest I have found is this one: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/8-port-netgear-gs108t-200uks-prosafe-gigabit-smart-switch
But at £60 it's more than I would like to spend on a switch.
Thanks for any help
It has two NIC's that I would like to link together to obtain a 2gb's link to my switch. The motherboards manual says my switch would need to support IEEE 802.3ad. I am using an old dynamode gigabit switch but it does not have a model number on it so I can't track it down on the net but I'm sure it doesn't the IEEE 802.3ad standard.
So could anyone help me finding a cheap switch that will do the job? (I'm in the UK so please keep that in mind.
It seems a need a "smart" switch and the cheapest I have found is this one: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/8-port-netgear-gs108t-200uks-prosafe-gigabit-smart-switch
But at £60 it's more than I would like to spend on a switch.
Thanks for any help