[107340] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Force10 Gear - Opinions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim deleskie)
Mon Sep 1 08:48:13 2008
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 09:47:32 -0300
From: "jim deleskie" <deleskie@gmail.com>
To: "Greg VILLAIN" <nanog@grrrrreg.net>
In-Reply-To: <CDCC496D-1E6B-4697-96F2-FAC76A942C49@grrrrreg.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
The S series runs the same FTOS as the C and E series, as of a number
of months ago. The only exception is the 2410, ie all 10G ports L2
only.
-jim
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Greg VILLAIN <nanog@grrrrreg.net> wrote:
>
> On Aug 26, 2008, at 6:46 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>>
>> Another thing to note (as near as I can tell, this applies to all
>> vendors). All line cards will function
>> only at the lowest common denominator line card CAM level.
>>
>> IOW, if you have single, dual, and quad-cam cards in your F10 chassis,
>> they'll all act like
>> single-CAM cards.
>>
>> Owen
>
>
> I'd have to second that. This is a very annoying fact, that you will find
> mentioned nowhere.
> What I also used to dislike is the lack of verbosity of 'show features' -
> but that was back a year ago.
> Btw, you absolutely want to avoid the S series, the CLI is a pain, and is
> not the same as the E or C series, and lacks many features.
> Price/10G port is interesting though, but not as much as with Arastra, if
> that's switching you're into. (never tested any such kits though...)
> My own 2 cents.
>
> Greg VILLAIN
>
>
>
