[70712] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dell power connect switches.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Fri May 21 18:37:32 2004
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From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 00:34:15 +0200
To: "Joel Perez" <jperez@uspgi.com>
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On 20-mei-04, at 22:10, Joel Perez wrote:
> We are planning to deploy several Dell PowerConnect 3324, 3348 and 6024
> switches on our network.
No real complaints. The management is a bit unusual as it's menu-based
and the telnet session always makes the cursor disappear on my vt100
windows... Then there is the issue that you have to set the vlan for
access ports in two places, for no apparent reason. Unless I'm
mistaken, the IP address for the switch "works" in all vlans. So I'm
not sure if this switch is appropriate in very security conscious
environments, but for simple managed switching it works well enough.
