[181575] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Quanta LB4M
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brielle Bruns)
Sun Jun 28 15:03:08 2015
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From: Brielle Bruns <bruns@2mbit.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 13:03:00 -0600
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On 6/28/15 12:50 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:
> Has anyone gotten a "non-factory" firmware to go onto these guys? There are a couple threads on Google that are inconclusive. There are rumors that it's the same as a Dell something or an HP something else, but no one has outright said, "I loaded a Dell XXXX firmware onto it and solved all of the random ass bugs."
>
> If I didn't already have a couple of stacked Extreme x400s, I'd consider these at home, but they're somewhat buggy.
>
> Quanta told me to contact whomever I bought it from... but I don't think the random guy on eBay is going to have much of anything useful to say.
>
Oh FSM, those things. Urgh.
They are like the EIF24G series and 10GCF from Foundry - OEM devices
that vendors can just rebrand with their own logos and sell.
I've tried swapping the firmware on the EIF24G-As and the Dell
equivalent, and its been a miss every time. Got several of them at one
point with 'defective ports' that magically got fixed with a firmware
upgrade.
Even with the firmware upgrades, STP was a hot mess on them causing odd
blocking situations.
Your better off going with something like the new Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch Lite.
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Brielle Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org
