One or two switches?

From: Dominik Hofer (dominik.hofer_at_gmx.net)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:17:50 +0200

100Mbit internet connection.

What would you prefer:

One 1Gbit switch for everything.

or

One 100Mbit switch for external communication, and one 1Gbit switch for
internal communication between the servers.
(The servers are some apache, with share sessions over sharedance and
data over nfs, a mysql-server, and a plb or pound load balancer)

I'm shure the second option is a bit faster, but do you think it's worth
the money?

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