On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 2:29 AM, Kevin Day <[email protected]> wrote:
> The problems with the EX2300 I've seen: > > * The out-of-the-box version of Junos on them has a clock bug where it > says its NTP synced, but the system clock gets advanced to 2038 and things > go crazy. It's sometimes difficult to keep the switch running long enough > to upgrade it. > Yep hit this bug several times but was hard to pinpoint an exact cause, sometimes it seemed to be worse if I'd powered the switch up and left it for a while before loading the initial config. After a while I found that manually setting the time to within a few minutes of correct local time and rebooting the switch that it would be enough to get the new image deployed. > * It's also painfully slow to reboot, but not quite as bad as the EX2200. > Yeah was equally disappointed to see that boot times hadn't improved any over the EX2200, in my experience both platforms take a full 5 minutes to boot and start forwarding traffic. > * Some old half-duplex devices don't negotiate with the EX2300, but work > with the EX2200. It's improved with later builds, but not perfect. > We similarly had issues with old model Gallagher cardax controllers not properly negotiating on the EX2300, they used to negotiate themselves to 10Mbps Half-Duplex on the old Cisco 3750 switches just fine, took a bit of trial and error on the EX2300 configs to work out to just set the port to 10Mbps Full-Duplex with no auto-negotiate and no flow-control and they show up as working at 10Mbps Full Duplex now. > > Overall neither switch has had bad enough issues that I'd shy away from > them. The 2300 is definitely an upgrade that I'm happy with. > Agreed, although the need to purchase a "paper" licence for the 2300 just to enable virtual-chassis when it was otherwise standard on the EX2200 seems to be a step backwards as well, I'm having to store a whole heap of envelopes with the paper licence to apparently prove the right to use that feature. _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
