[123597] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: 10GBase-t switch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Whynott)
Thu Mar 11 13:44:21 2010
From: Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:43:21 -0500
In-Reply-To: <FCD26398C5EDE746BFC47F43EA52A173042EA0B4@dino.ad.hostasaurus.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I will likely never buy or recommend Foundry equipment again. In a previ=
ous gig, a HPC enviorment, they caused us many problems, support was hor=
rible, and thier 10Gbit kit was the pits when it was first released (no ide=
a how it is now or what they offer, its been 5 years since. burnt once, t=
wice shy). We replaced most all our Foundry L2 gear with HP 8212s which m=
et our expectations.
Brocade is the king of license gouging, it is no surprise they want money =
to view a pdf.
Force10 and Extreme are both having sales this month on 24 port 10Gbit swit=
ches, $20k off almost.
-g
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From: David Hubbard [dhubbard@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:mvh@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
