[mythtv-users] myth on separate subnet

[Andre Newman]

On 14 Jan 2010, at 11:09, Mark wrote:

> Andre Newman wrote:
>> With any half reasonable switch there's no measurable benefit in segregating, the switch will do that for you anyway just by switching. If you mess up the cisco configuration performance will get a lot worse and sorry to say that if you knew how to get good performance out of Cisco you wouldn't be posting this question!
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> Good point.  I've got a cisco expert at work helping me.  Always helps to befriend the IT guys.... ;)
>> Keep it simple, very doubtful that anything you have will be able to flood a gbit nic, you could team the ports but unless you have at least a 6 disk raid 10 with 10k SAS drives and 100+ client workstations I wouldn't bother. 
>> I used to have a dual subnet system (for different reasons) and it was always a pain, not just with MythTV either. As soon as possible I flattened the network and things are much easier now, with dual subnet almost every service is more complicated.
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> Sounds like the prudent plan is keep it single subnet, get a gigabit module for the switch,

A gbit module for any cisco switch would cost much more than a whole new gigabit switch, do you really need any of the cisco features for a home network? Apologies if you have a 40 room mansion with Internet, voip and MythTV in every room and three generations of a very large family living there ;-)

I recently replaced 20 odd switches at a company for less money than their annual maintenance contract, you can buy a HP Procurve managed switch for less money than adding a firmware feature set to a Cisco and usually the Procurve has the feature already!

Teaming might save you some money and get you 200Mb/s into the switch, I've done it with Extreme switches and Linux before, your IT friend should know about that. Still hard to beat a £50 gigabit switch for a home network though.

Andre