On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Greg Whynott wrote: > Brocade is the king of license gouging, it is no surprise they want > money to view a pdf.
To be fair, Foundry removed their manuals from public view a good few years ago, long before Brocade came on the scene. It annoyed me too. Jethro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jethro R Binks Computing Officer, IT Services, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK > ________________________________________ > From: David Hubbard [dhubb...@dino.hostasaurus.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:31 PM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: RE: 10GBase-t switch > > From: Malte von dem Hagen [mailto:m...@hosteurope.de] > > > > Hi, > > > > Am 11.03.10 16:29 schrieb Dylan Ebner: > > > Do the Arista switches support netflow? > > > > nothing about it in the datasheets, and regarding documentation: > > > > "A registered account and a valid support contract is required to > > access the Software Download and Documentation section of the > > website." > > > > Service fail. > > +1 > > After Brocade started doing that with the Foundry > docs, which hung me out to dry one night when I > needed some docs I didn't have easy access to, I > decided I will try to avoid buying from companies > that require a support contract to read the manual. > > David > > >
