Toni Mueller wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I'm looking into getting switches to be used in port-extender style,
> and found a thread from last year recommending Cisco switches. I need
> about 20-50 ports atm, and would like to avoid Cisco. My current
> preference is using Procurve (2810 or 29xx). Do they work?
>
> What do you recommend? Any gotchas?
>   
They work excellently! ... and the (free) Procurve support has been 
surprisingly sane in my experience.

I much prefer Procurve over the cheap SMC or NetGear or Dell managed 
switches I've had to deal with in the past -- yuck!

-T
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> TIA!