Cisco is like buying a car a piece at a time. Oh, you want the steering wheel? For all of Mikrotik’s - Mikrotik-ness, they come preloaded with all the things. I have a 3650 that’s sort of just working, but there was some weird update I needed for doing OSPF or some such, can’t recall. Also, Cisco threatens its own customers if ‘gasp’ you fall out of an active support contract, reinstatement fees equal to a year of college or something.
Juniper has been lovely, therefore took market from Cisco, hopefully they will stay relatively lovely, time will tell. > On Mar 15, 2023, at 5:22 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) > <li...@packetflux.com> wrote: > > And that's why we're switching to juniper. > > Cisco has moved to a model where the software and hardware are licensed or > sold separately on most platforms and the software is subscription based. > > Not sure what the situation is with the 3660, but some revert to very basic > functionality. > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 4:08 PM Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com > <mailto:n...@blastcomm.com>> wrote: > I just picked up a used Cisco 3650 switch off Ebay because I needed 48 > POE ports that can do Vlans on the cheap. When I go into the > 'Licensing' screen through the browser, it shows Authorization Status > 'EVAL MODE' with a 90 day countdown timer. Will the switch stop working > after 90 days? I haven't used anything Cisco in a long time. 3500 > switches were the last thing I dabbled with. > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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