[89730] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Foundry Old Switch vs Old Cisco one
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Mon Apr 3 10:00:17 2006
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn_Mork?= <bjorn@mork.no>
To: "Kim Onnel" <karim.adel@gmail.com>
Cc: NANGO <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 15:59:39 +0200
In-Reply-To: <e05f39290604030642l511e7bdfo3f7afde50453012a@mail.gmail.com>
(Kim Onnel's message of "Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:42:59 +0200")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
"Kim Onnel" <karim.adel@gmail.com> writes:
> I have this old foundry switch in the warehouse, I have no experience in
> Foundry, i wonder if this switch can be upgraded to a newer OS that will
> support advanced features or shall i consider it dead,
What advanced features? It's a L4 switch with fixed ports. There's
really not much to add or remove.
> I want to mainly use it for one customer that wants caching, its L4 i gue=
ss
> and i have an old NetApp caching server that will save the customer 10MBs=
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> guess.
It should be able to do this without any upgrades at all. But I guess
you'd want a service contract on it anyway...
> telnet@foundry-switch#sh ver
> SW: Version 07.3.04T12 Copyright (c) 1996-1999 Foundry Networks, Inc.
> Compiled on Mar 07 2002 at 11:46:40 labeled as SLB07304
> HW: ServerIron Switch, serial number 10ac46
> 400 MHz Power PC processor 740 (revision 8) with 32756K bytes of DRAM
> 16 100BaseT interfaces with Level 1 Transceiver LXT975
> 2 GIGA Fiber uplink interfaces, SX
As it says, this is a 16-port ServerIron XL with a 2-port SX
gig-module. It runs a pretty early version of the layer 3 enabled
code for SIs. Should be OK, I guess.
Documentation can be found at
http://www.foundrynet.com/services/documentation/index.html#SI
and software on
http://www.foundrynet.com/services/support/index.html
(software download requires a service contract)
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