Re: Mystery open source switching company claims top-of-rack price edge (was Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch)

2010-10-31 Thread bas
Hi, On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Kevin Oberman ober...@es.net wrote: I might also mention that I received private SPAM from a name we all know and loath. (Hint: He's been banned from NANOG for VERY good reason and his name is of French derivation.) I just added a filter to block any mail

Re: Mystery open source switching company claims top-of-rack price edge (was Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch)

2010-10-31 Thread Paul WALL
I don't know what the big deal is. I've rolled at least 20 of these switches into my network, and not only are they more stable than the Centillion switches that they replaced, they only cost half as much. Most of the money I dropped was on converting my stations from token ring to ethernet. On

Re: Mystery open source switching company claims top-of-rack price edge (was Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch)

2010-10-31 Thread bas
Hi Paul, On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Paul WALL pauldotw...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know what the big deal is.  I've rolled at least 20 of these switches into my network, and not only are they more stable than the Centillion switches that they replaced, they only cost half as much. Most

Re: Mystery open source switching company claims top-of-rack price edge (was Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch)

2010-10-31 Thread Jeff Kell
On 10/31/2010 10:25 PM, bas wrote: Other than that are you comparing apples to apples when you compare Nortel ATM switches (with EOL somewhere in 2004) with new ethernet hardware? Nortel Centillion... had a cold chill run up my spine just thinking back about it... shadows of Synoptics...

Re: Mystery open source switching company claims top-of-rack price edge (was Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch)

2010-10-31 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Oct 31, 2010, at 19:25, bas kilo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Paul, On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Paul WALL pauldotw...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know what the big deal is. I've rolled at least 20 of these switches into my network, and not only are they more stable than the Centillion

Re: Mystery open source switching company claims top-of-rack price edge (was Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch)

2010-10-31 Thread Randy Bush
Other than that are you comparing apples to apples when you compare Nortel ATM switches (with EOL somewhere in 2004) with new ethernet hardware? arista rulz tos

Mystery open source switching company claims top-of-rack price edge (was Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch)

2010-10-30 Thread Lin Pica8
Hello, For your information : http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/102810-pica8-opensource-switching.html?page=1 Mail : pica8@gmail.com 2010/10/19 Lin Pica8 pica8@gmail.com: Hello, To have a better overview of a Cloud (or OpenFlow) Switch, I would greatly appreciate to invite you

Re: Mystery open source switching company claims top-of-rack price edge (was Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch)

2010-10-30 Thread Randy Bush
plonk ... goes your custom Marketing by annoyance, smoke, and mirrors? Gotta love the strategy do not buy from spammers

Re: Mystery open source switching company claims top-of-rack price edge(was Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch)

2010-10-30 Thread Lin Pica8
Source Development Group -Original Message- From: Lin Pica8 pica8@gmail.com Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:42:36 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Mystery open source switching company claims top-of-rack price edge        (was Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch) Hello, For your

Re: Mystery open source switching company claims top-of-rack price edge (was Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch)

2010-10-30 Thread gordon b slater
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 03:28 +0900, Randy Bush wrote: plonk ... goes your custom Marketing by annoyance, smoke, and mirrors? Gotta love the strategy do not buy from spammers ...goes without saying. I'm just wondering if this a guerilla launch for some new Oracle product or project, or

Re: Mystery open source switching company claims top-of-rack price edge (was Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch)

2010-10-30 Thread Lin Pica8
Buy you glasses and a book about network engineering ;) ! Meanwhile, I'm failing to see a product http://www.pica8.org/products/pronto-3780 source code http://sourceforge.net/p/xorplus/home/ or more to the point, any operational aspect at all in any of these ad-spam posts. Pica natively

Re: Mystery open source switching company claims top-of-rack price edge (was Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch)

2010-10-30 Thread gordon b slater
On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 21:05 +0200, Lin Pica8 wrote: Buy you glasses and a book about network engineering ;) ! eat your own words in any of these ad-spam posts Now get out, and stay out, of my NOCs Gord

Re: Mystery open source switching company claims top-of-rack price edge (was Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch)

2010-10-30 Thread Atticus
What interests me is that they can't even be bothered to set up their own mail server, or at the very least to use Google Apps for mail.

Re: Mystery open source switching company claims top-of-rack price edge (was Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch)

2010-10-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:28:25 +0900 From: Randy Bush ra...@psg.com plonk ... goes your custom Marketing by annoyance, smoke, and mirrors? Gotta love the strategy do not buy from spammers I might also mention that I received private SPAM from a name we all know and loath. (Hint: