Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

[Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>

> Subject: Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?
> > The holy grail I'm searching for now? A GigE switch with POE,
> > unmanaged is ok, and probably preferred from a price perspective;
> > but with NO FAN.
>
> I can't help with the POE part. I have a 16-port D-Link DGS-1016D
> -- GigE, no fan, unmanaged.

My intuition, Leo, is that you won't *get* a PoE switch[1] without a fan; those
things can be responsible for pushing *a lot* of power, fully loaded,
and there's no real reason for them to be designed without one.

Cheers,
-- jra
[1]GigE, with that many ports.
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