Like Nate, we had a few of them and had no problems. Then we deployed 25
or 30 of them to small sites. Most of the time they just sit there and
run. Over the past few years we've just had a few scattered instances
where we had to reboot them when traffic wouldn't move to one port.
There's one at a hub site with several backhauls plugged into it....that
one actually needed a reboot a couple of times so we replaced it. Then
it needed a reboot again a couple more times since then.
These events are scattered over 3-4 years so I'm not saying they're
UN-reliable, they're just not critical infrastructure level of reliable.
-Adam
On 10/18/2019 10:55 AM, Adam Moffett wrote:
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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