I still have some Cisco 2960 and 3550 switches in my networks, but it seems every time I try to do something with VLANs, it’s a royal pain to get them to do what I want.
Yes, they can do the traditional port based virtual LAN thing where each LAN port is an access port and assigned to one of the VLANs, and trunk ports are used to connect switches to other switches. That was important back in 1995, for closet switches in campus networks, so you could install a bunch of switches in the closet and wire them to all the desks and assign computers to department LANs later. But take the example of inband management on a backhaul radio where you want management traffic tagged and data traffic untagged. On a Mikrotik or even Cisco router, that’s trivial, you just create a subinterface for the tagged traffic and assign an IP address to it. Takes 10 seconds and is very easy to understand. I seem to always be wanting tagged and untagged traffic on the same physical interface, and making it a trunk port doesn’t really accomplish what I want, in fact it risks native VLAN conflict or even VLAN leakage. So give me a router any day. Just hard to find a 48 port router. Sad to say the real reason I’m getting rid of the 2960 switches, some of which I’ve had for 10+ years, is that 100 Mbps ports are not enough for APs anymore, even if the uplink ports are gigabit. Damn you, Netflix. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2019 7:38 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] switch recommendation We use hp procurve everywhere, I think they changed it to office connect or some weirdness, hp is have an identity crisis. But they've become pretty cheap and the warranty is crazy, like they just like making switches and want you to have them so they can make more On Fri, Sep 27, 2019, 6:24 PM Seth Mattinen <se...@rollernet.us <mailto:se...@rollernet.us> > wrote: On 9/27/19 11:04 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > So who would you make a warranty claim against on a sale like this? HP > direct? If they're still doing the lifetime warranty thing, yeah. I once bricked one during a firmware update and they RMA'd it no questions asked. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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