[geeks] Ethernet Switches

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>
>Date: 2006/10/17 Tue PM 03:12:51 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Ethernet Switches

>On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>
>>> I'd imagine the switching latency on a ProCurve should be vastly
>>> superior to a ciscoSystems 2900-series switch.<SNIP>
>>
>> What makes you say that?
>
>A fellow who used to hang out on Alex's IRC server did a benchmark
>between 2900s and ProCurve 4000s (roughly the same age hardware).  The
>4000 kicked the 2900's tail.  It would not be unreasonable to expect
>that newer HP gear is at least as decent.
>
>Then again, their printers have gone to crap.... :(

They've been "Fiorina'd", which can be abbreviated as "F'd"

Lionel