[ale] Network hardware/software recommendations

[Simba]

Depends on your purpose.

For home networking I like Netgear. For your gateway router I recommend
installing Advanced Tomato, so investigate hardware that is compatible.

For an office it's an entirely different game. Small 4-8 port Netgear
switches are fine at the desk level but you need industrial grade
equipment in the server room. All the brands you named are fine (Cisco,
Juniper, Ubiquiti).

GUIs are worthless. If you're wiring up an office forget about GUIs. If
you need a GUI you're under-qualified to wire up an office network.


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On 8/20/18 6:28 PM, Ken Cochran via Ale wrote:
> Hi ALE,
> 
> Turns out my question may be not so off-topic, since so much
> networking stuff these days has Linux-based software innards.
> 
> So, what's "good" these days?
> 
> "Good" meaning, solid, reliable, flexible, etc., dare-I-say
> "carrier grade" (probably a bs-term).
> 
> Examples, the likes of Cisco, Juniper, umm, Ubiquiti, others?
> 
> Stuff like routers, switches & WAPs, configurable by GUI
> and/or CLI, worth learning & developing proficiency for
> job/opportunity advancement.
> 
> I keep hearing nice things about Ubiquiti for example.
> 
> Or, the likes of (for example) Smoothwall & Something To Run It On...
> 
> Ideas/opinions?
> 
> Thanks, -Ken
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