I have some opinions on this.
1) Yes they're cheap.
2) They run ROS, so if a newb comes along who doesn't realize that this
is switch hardware and it has a crappy CPU, then that newb might try to
make firewall rules and VPN tunnels and other such router functionality
in the config. That will be a mistake because the CPU is weak and you
will get crappy performance. Leave it as an L2 switch and the
performance is perfectly fine.
3) Configuring L2 functions on the switch menu in ROS is obtuse. I've
messed with VLAN's, port isolation, and port mirroring. It's all
strangely difficult to understand and use.
4) I've had them just decide one day that they'll stop forwarding
packets to one or more interfaces and then "fixed" them with a reboot.
I've also had them sit there and do their thing as a basic managed
switch for several years with no issue.
I would not use them for critical infrastructure anymore, but a switch
with a small form factor and extended operating temperature spec
generally costs several times what the CRS costs so I'd still consider
it for the right circumstance. I can't tell you what the right
circumstance is. That's your call.
On 10/18/2019 10:39 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
We usually use the lower end HP procurve switches, we have had zero
problems with them over the years, but now theyre office connect and
seem that all the 24 port ones are going deep instead of 10 inches.
The CRS stuff is 1/2 to 1/3 the cost of comparable HP switches.
Have any of you degenerates used these very much and stayed with them?
We route with mikrotiks so we are aware of the mikrotik funky stuff,
the cost offsets those
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