I would recommend strongly against HP Procurve switches for anything
other than a doorstop.
I recently watched multiple Procurve switches sporadically reboot
themselves (multiple times, in an unpredictable fashion), fail to
provide properly functioning BOOTP helpers, fail to provide sensible
802.1x configuration options, awful VLAN configuration and generally
become unstable with small work loads (few dozen machines doing
automated installs).
Said swtches have since been ripped out and replaced with Cisco and
life is better now.
On Nov 20, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Antonio Costa wrote:
I worked for a Hosting company in the past that used DELL switches
mostly
for the cabinet or cages. They're not as reliable.
3Com has made a comeback, since they purchased Huwaei. A boss of
mine has
told me he did a lot of jobs pulling old 3Comms as they were
Failure prone.
One that shows promise for less money than CISCO, and without the
annoying
CISCO SmartNet annual re-licensing is HP Procurve. Price is
slightly less
than CISCO and HP is known for making good hardware, no matter the
application.
Tony Costa
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I've had quite the opposite experience. I don't think I've worked
with a netgear switch (old or new) that didn't freak out and need to
be rebooted on a regular basis.
I've become something of a fan of Foundry FastIrons over the last few
years. They're solid, manageable, and typically much cheaper than a
"comparable" cisco, moreso on the grey market.
-steve
On Nov 19, 2007, at 10:24 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
Y'know, I've always liked netgear switches myself, but I didn't
know they
made managed switches. So I'll look into that as well.
Thanks...
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From: Dave Pascoe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 4:04 PM
To: Edward Ned Harvey
Subject: Re: [BBLISA] Cisco versus Dell switches
I know you're only looking at Cisco and Dell. Don't overlook
Netgear -
I used to snub them but after testing their newer lines of switches
find
them to be really nice. And stable. The managed switches are
actually
affordable and feature rich.
I've used almost all the major manufacturers and have done work in
some
heavy duty environments...so my recommendation isn't coming from
left
field. :-)
Dave
Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
Hey everyone. I know cisco is better; that's not the question.
The
question is - is cisco better in any of the ways I will care about.
Enough
to outweigh the extra cost. I'm comparing 24port managed gigabit,
against
24port managed gigabit.
If I buy the cisco, I am sure the switches will be stable, and
remain
operational, I can safely assume they continue doing their job at
all
times
with pure trust. Until the switch suffers some total failure,
and I
RMA the
device. I am prepared to face the risk that cisco RMA is 4 hour,
while Dell
RMA is NBD.
But in the past (2002) I had problems with Dell switches that would
crash.
I was in a company that used experimental network hardware, but now
it's
unclear if the cause was the switches or the experimental network
hardware.
It's also unclear if there was a problem back in 2002, which is now
resolved.
Does anyone use Dell switches, can you say you're able to work
without
problems in general? You're able to put some heavy NFS traffic
across the
network, and the switches don't unexplainedly crash?
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