On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 19:29, John Hearns wrote: > Well, let's sit back and think. > Gigabit Ethernet these days is pretty cheap. For instance, at the budget end of the market, for small unmanaged switches: http://www.corega-international.com/default.asp?SCREEN=product§ion=323&productID=335 Other brands similarly Netgear, D-Link (I run a Corega 10/100 switch at home. I am not in any way speaking for Clustervision here, as we work with high performance compute clusters, which are not for these switches) Then again, you have the fun of working with channel bonding, the learning experience and of course getting performance gains from kit you probably have sitting around already.