My mix of 5-port no-brand gigabit-switch and a handful of Linksys WRT54G doesn’t turn out to be a very stable choice for network connectivity, so I just put in a order for a Netgear GS716T-200EUS, a 16-port gigabit switch with VLAN capability. It will arrive in a few days, which should be just in time for my server move.
I figured 16 ports should be enough. The devices that I am planning to connect to the switch now and in the future is:
| Equipment | Number of NICs each | How many | Total |
| Sniper | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| WRT54G | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Slimline (desktop) | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Internet | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| New cluster nodes | 1 | 4 (max) | 4 (max) |
| Network Attach Storage | 1-2 | 1 | 1-2 |
| Total: | 15-16 |
I have some other equipment like networked printers and print-servers which I will put on the ISP-supplied router (that also has a 4-port switch).
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.... If I did miscalculate on the number of gigabit ports I require I just need to move away my WRT54G's to a 100 mbit switch and replace the 4 ports they require to a single one. WRT54G does support VLAN with custom firmware (OpenWRT, which I of course use) so I would just need to put them on a trunk line then.
And if I go for more then 4 cluster nodes I will have some problems:
1) Each cluster node is only about USD$500 each, but it adds up and there are other things I want to buy as well.
2) Then we have the electrical problem: I can't add electronics indefinitely to my home lab without getting to the point where the electrical system in the apartment is under dimensioned.
3) Plus we have the whole "limited physical space under the stairs" problem as well.
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