Re: One or two switches?

From: mirek (mpezda_at_lanex.pl)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:45:57 +0200

Dominik Hofer wrote:
> 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?
In my opinion the second solution is more safe than first.
Let's imagine you experience a crash of 1Gb switch ... terrible. All
communication - external and internal - is dead.

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