On 2/25/2012 12:33 AM, Luke S. Crawford wrote:
We also have
had issues with the management capability randomly going away on these,
even serial console. That's probably part of the reason they are so
inexpensive. Also, they have no L3 capability, they are purely L2 and
because it's SFTOS the configuration syntax will be a bit foreign. the
4810 switch is SO MUCH BETTER and with FTOS is looks very similar to IOS.
Hm. Yeah, and no documentation? that sounds pretty bad. I've
got a really nice serial console setup, but it sounds like that won't
help me in this case. Sounds like that's not the best way to go.
Not all of our switches have this symptom, but the one that was the
busiest would lose its console and ssh access. The documentation isn't
really hard to get..
On the other hand, the 2410 will forward your packets on the backplane
very quickly. It's plenty fast enough.
I'd very much recommend the 4810. It's an awesome switch. It also has 4
@40g ports that you can use to stack them together to make virtual
chassis and have LAG to hosts.
Hm. Looks nice, but about ten grand out of budget. I really only
need about 4 10G ports for now, everything else is still GigE, and I
need a lot of those, so one of the HP chassis switches is starting to
look good.
A friend says I should build a 'fat tree'[1] out of cheap switches; but it
looks to me like a chassis switch is a lot less work until I need a whole
heck of a lot of 10G+ ports, and even then it will have... significant costs
in terms of cable management complexity, and considering that I only need
around 100 fastE ports at this location, a chassis switch would do it.
You might consider the S55. you can get the SFP cards for 4x10g and
44x1g copper plus 4 SFP pluggable media, but it certainly doesn't have
100 ports, so you may be better off with the chassis, particularly if
you don't need full port to port bandwidth.
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