Using a cheap POE switch. I'm pretty happy with it since it's cheap. It's a bit noisy with a small load would be my only complaint - I suspect it's the same volume at full load.
No management/layer 3 features on mine nor do I want them. I don't know if L2 only means you want management or not. On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 10:24 AM Paschal Masha < paschal.ma...@ke.wananchi.com> wrote: > Same experience here. So far so good and their TAC is efficient. > > I had to disable MCLAG settings due to a strange behavior with multicast. > Something that appeared unpleasing- at least to me - is the fact that the > separate MPLS license doesn't support PIM when activated. > > > > Regards > Paschal Masha | Engineering > Skype ID: paschal.masha > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Adams" <c...@cmadams.net> > To: "nanog" <nanog@nanog.org> > Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2022 4:55:27 PM > Subject: Re: fs.com Ethernet switches > > Once upon a time, Richard Angeletti <r...@psc.edu> said: > > Wondering if anyone on the list has any experiences with fs.com > Ethernet > > switches that they are willing to share (good or bad)? > > > > We're looking for some cost effective L2 only 10Gb-T switches and their > > S58XX switches have come up as a potential option. > > I set up a couple of S5850s for a sever cluster recently, with MC-LAG > and a bit of L3 for a management network. They worked fine. > > The only issue I had was getting ACLs applied to limit device and > management net access; they had a couple of extra steps needed. The > typical IOS-ish "ip access-group" command is accepted on an interface, > but it doesn't actually work that way - you have to do a policy-map that > references a class-map that references an access-list, and then apply > the policy-map to the interface. > > Also, putting an ACL on "line vty" only applied after authentication (so > you could SSH and authenticate, only to then be denied access, which > makes it susceptible to password scanners). Instead you configure an > ACL on the SSH service itself. > > -- > Chris Adams <c...@cmadams.net> > > > >