Long Day's Journey into <Bleep>

[Chad Perrin]

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 longer
> > >worked.  I don't think I've ever had the whole thing go poof for no
> > >evident reason.
> > 
> > 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."
> 
> 	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.

. . . 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.


> > 
> > BTW, Gary, Linksys=Cisco is pretty much just a marketing thing and
> > not a technology thing.
> 
> 	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.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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