On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 07:28:01PM -0700, Sherwood Botsford wrote: > HOWEVER, these switches are dying like flies at a RAID show. > I've had 5 of them die in the last 3 months. (I also use them in > classrooms -- Overkill, for 3-4 computers in a classroom, but, as > I said, the price is right.) In effort to stem the bloody tide, > I've remounted them on the rack with 2 rack holes between each, > to improve the air cooling. 3Com switches die. I have had that experience all around. If you can find a spot below 19 celsius they seem to work better. Anything hotter than that and they will overheat.
The other horrible experience I have had is with ZyXEL. The cheap manageable models have worked OK, but I ended up having to generate configs with perl to get around the horrible semantics of their VLAN config. On a brighter side, cheap realtek unamanageable switches Just Work. Use them, and find more ways to use them. You can avoid the need for gigabit sometimes with channel bonding, too. -- Jussi Peltola
