On 13 May 2013 16:29, George B. <[email protected]> wrote: > The feature licensing has pros and cons. If you need all of the features > required, it is frustrating to have to buy the licenses. If you *don't* > need all of those features, though, it is nice not to have to pay for them. >
No, I don't want to licence "features" one by one, as eventually that means some will just drop off the feature map and something fairly well deployed in the larger chassis based systems becomes a "premium" feature[0]. That is, unfortunately, how things would go if you proceed down that path. I nearly kicked out a sales guy from a pitch for suggesting that "ports on demand" was a good proposition for the customer[1]. I detest the continual warning messages I get in the syslog from a factory fresh ICX6450 saying that I haven't bought a POD licence for 10G ports 2/4. I know I haven't. There's no SFP+ in there! Instead, I have to manually set the ports to gig-mode to get them to shut up. Compared to licensing hardware ports, software features are just another reason not to buy equipment if an alternative vendor has it in their base package. M [0] That's one of the reasons I bought MLX-e instead of J-MX80. [1] That's one of the reasons I bought CER instead of J-MX5.
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