[123851] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: 10GBase-t switch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jethro R Binks)
Wed Mar 17 07:46:22 2010
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:45:46 +0000 (GMT)
From: Jethro R Binks <jethro.binks@strath.ac.uk>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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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.
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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
> ________________________________________
> 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
>
>
>
