[122682] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Recommendations for router with routed copper gig-e ports?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Feb 19 11:56:54 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <F4AF242A-79CA-4B47-8F31-C74C82DA3F17@hopcount.ca>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:53:57 -0800
To: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
Cc: 'North American Network Operators Group' <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 16, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Joe Abley wrote:
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> On 2010-02-14, at 12:41, Lorell Hathcock wrote:
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>> My problem on the redesign is I want to provide routed, copper gig-e =
ports
>> at a reasonable price per port.
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> Force10 S25N/S50N. http://www.force10networks.com/products/s50n.asp
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> If you look for used models, make sure they're not so old that they =
can't run FTOS. You don't want SFTOS, which is what the older switches =
run.
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> They work nicely in a stack, when you find you need to grow.
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> Joe
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I had absolutely horrible experiences with SFTOS. The upgrade to FTOS =
was not pleasant.
Once they were running on FTOS, they weren't horrible, but, I will never =
buy another one.
Owen
