[169412] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: out of band management gear
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Sun Feb 23 23:17:22 2014
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 20:16:41 -0800
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net>,
Richard Hesse <richard.hesse@weebly.com>
In-Reply-To: <1303265085.235458.1393014420975.JavaMail.zimbra@network1.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 2/21/14, 12:27 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote:
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> OpenGear's newer stuff is Gigabit (SFP even).
>=20
> I've not seen any real switch made in the last decade that has a proble=
m with 100Mb/s connections. Ancient cisco, maybe had issues.
>=20
there are a substantial number of 10Gb/s switch that cannot do tri-rate
on copper sfps.
in previous $job oob--ilo-ports doing WOL/ and cdu(s) were the annoying
100Mbs/s only devices. terminal servers (all advocent in this case) made
the jump aleady.
> thanks,
> -Randy
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> --
> Randy Carpenter
> Vice President - IT Services
> First Network Group, Inc.
> (800)578-6381, Opt. 1
> http://www.network1.net
> http://www.facebook.com/FirstNetworkGroup
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> We're really pleased with the Perle IOLAN line. They even have a gigab=
it
>> port without a $10k price tag. Amazing!
>>
>> It really dumbfounds me why so many vendors are still putting 10/100
>> Ethernet ports on their OOB management (looking at you OpenGear).
>> Especially a PITA today since many switchports today don't support lin=
ks
>> speeds less than a gigabit.
>>
>> -richard
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Hank Disuko <gourmetcisco@hotmail.com=
>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>> I wonder if anyone has good experiences to share with out-of-band har=
dware?
>>> I'm looking for a good OOB hardware vendor. I need to manage my
>>> routers/switches/firewalls in a datacenter located overseas, and I'm
>>> looking to setup a good serial console server via an OOB link.
>>> I've been looking at Lantronix, OpenGear, Raritan...but they all seem=
to
>>> have the same basic features. I'm having trouble really differentiat=
ing
>>> them.
>>> I'm interested in analog modem, cellular options for my OOB link. Or=
even
>>> a secondary internet circuit either wired or wifi if the DC has that =
option
>>> available.
>>> Any good suggestions or experiences with a current OOB solution out t=
here?
>>> What are you doing for your OOB management?
>>> thanks,Hank
>>
>>
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