Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 23:34:30 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Long Day's Journey into <Bleep> Message-ID: <20110609053430.GA30732@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20110609052113.GA4291@thought.org> References: <20110609005656.GA9183@thought.org> <20110609035313.GA30448@guilt.hydra> <4DF049AC.3050403@radel.com> <20110609052113.GA4291@thought.org>
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--PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 10:21:13PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 12:18:52AM -0400, Jon Radel wrote: > > On 6/8/11 11:53 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > > >I think I've just had ports die one by one on a switch until it no lon= ger > > >worked. I don't think I've ever had the whole thing go poof for no > > >evident reason. > >=20 > > Ditto. Most recently a Cisco switch had a rather useful port go > > into a really weird state that didn't really look broken but bits > > just...weren't....flowing. Took a while, and a lot of poking at the > > server in question, before we looked at each other and said, "Wait, > > we've been assuming the switch works, what if it isn't." >=20 > Hm. WEll, I suppose stranger things have happened. If Chad has > had his switch drop connections one-by-one---well, news to me! > I figured, hey, solid- state will work forever and 20 years, > whichever comes first. ... I've had it happen with no fewer than three switches. I've also seen an "enterprise" class Netgear switch issue a "death scream" of some sort over the network at the moment the fiber optic cable was removed from it, crashing the BigIron switch that ran the data center. =2E . . but Cisco switches are overpriced crap. We were disconnecting the Netgear to replace it with a Cisco that offered a lot more functionality, and administration turned out to be a fucking nightmare with that thing. It's like replacing Postfix with MS Exchange because you want integrated calendaring and all the other crap in the BusinessWeek full-page ad, then finding out that you basically need a full-time employee just to manage that one server. > >=20 > > BTW, Gary, Linksys=3DCisco is pretty much just a marketing thing and > > not a technology thing. >=20 > Sure. But I've had luck++ with LinkSys for years, even before > Cisco bought them out. --My new switch is an LG. See what > happens. ... . In my (limited) experience, Linksys actually got more annoying after Cisco bought out the company. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk3wW2YACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKUBdQCggxTpLmvCZfNmJlmX2w3oVKUA LicAoMmIIfuQwUFzFDBNOjIRZT5Esv1c =c7bI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr--
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