On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 11:34:30PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 23:34:30 -0600
> From: Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com>
> Subject: Re: Long Day's Journey into <Bleep>
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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> 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.
>
LOL, man. But then, your troubles were at work, right? I mean
somewhere that has dozens or more people, users/computers going
thru the switch [?] Years ago I had as many a 6
computers--including my daughter's ancient W2K on a Kayak and
wife's work laptop and my several tower and laptops going thru
the 16-porter. *Still*, I don't care, the daamn thing should
have lasted longer than it did.
The LG is tiny and probably cutting-edge. And I'm down to two
computers. Server, desktop, and firewall. 5250DN printer. So
4 things. ASAP, I will replace the computer that runs pfSense
with a tiny kit that sips 4w. So doing my best to green up
things.
>
> > >
> > > 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.
[?] I ferget what all i bought that was Lonksys--prior to the
buyout--but they were all fairly cheap and reliable. Maybe
Cicso had some of the engineers do 70-hour weeks. Sure wouldn't
be the first company. anyhow, at least next time I won't spent 5
days in the rough.
gary
>
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