On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:05:19AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 08 June 2011: > > > > I think I've just had ports die one by one on a switch until it no longer > > worked. I don't think I've ever had the whole thing go poof for no > > evident reason. > > I have, twice. Both times it was a Linksys switch, too. Just suddenly, > no network. After the second one, I decided to switch (har) to a Netgear > GS116. Haven't had any trouble with it so far (knocks on head), but I've > only had it about a year.
I've been a little leery of Netgear switches after that little episode at the colocation facility where the BigIron switch was taken down by the Netgear's freak-out while unplugging the fiber optic line, but in truth I don't have enough experience with Netgear to know whether that was just some kind of bizarre one-time deal or a problem with Netgear. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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