We're going to contact HP support tomorrow night. The issue has been that it's been hard to get the consultant (and I've used two for this issue) to come after hours, but I've got them coming at 5 tomorrow night. When working during normal business hours, it's hard to leave the switch in long enough to call HP support (not sure how long we'd wait on hold, nevermind troubleshooting.) Users generally dislike service interruptions for long periods of time during normal working hours.
Thanks for everyone's opinions :) I always appreciate your time in answering. Evan From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 6:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Switch opinions Why not contact HP support? Seems like a configuration issue. And if the consultant doesn't know what to look for, the behavior will likely crop up when you put a (more expensive) managed switch from Cisco in there. ASB (My XeeSM Profile)<http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Evan Brastow <ebras...@automatedemblem.com<mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com>> wrote: Hi guys, Thanks to everyone for their opinions. I really appreciate it. The switch will handle VoIP traffic - we currently have an Allworx system, but the voice quality is fairly poor. We're thinking of separating out the wiring out and running a separate switch for the Allwork system and the computers. The reason I'm looking to replace the current HP ProCurve 2810 is that we recently purchased a new SonicWALL NSA 2400 firewall and put in place of our old Netscreen 5GT. However, when we did, the ProCurve seemingly started shutting down the LAN side of the SonicWALL port. This happened again and again. My consultant and I could not figure out what's going on, and they've been here 4 times working on it - probably have spent 15 hours on the situation. As soon as we put the Netscreen back in place, it's fine. Then, the consultant brought in an unmanaged 3Com switch and we put it in place. At that point, things ran fine. The port was not being shut down and everything seemed to work. Our consultant is more familiar with Cisco switches than HP, but said he had never seen a situation like this before. So, I'm just looking to replace the switch with a Cisco. We keep having to put the Netscreen back in place because once we put the SonicWALL in with the HP switch, all heck breaks loose. Again, thanks for your opinions :) Evan From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com<mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com>] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 2:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Switch opinions It is going to be interesting to see how the whole Cisco/HP Networking/Server thing is going to pan out ultimately. My understanding was that HP & Cisco had kind of a friendly agreement to stay out of each others' spaces for a while there, but now that HP has entered the server arena going head to head against HP and everyone else, it will be interesting to see if HP steps up their networking game... Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com ________________________________ From: richardmccl...@aspca.org<mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org> [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org<mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org>] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 2:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Switch opinions +1 Both our old 3500-series Cisco and our current 3750 series are, unless you know the CIOS CLI stuff thoroughly, are a pain to manage. Support renewal is expensive (SmartNet - smart for Cisco, I guess...) I would seriously consider staying with HP (which was not my choice to make a couple of years back...) -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA(r) 1717 S. 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"Raper, Jonathan - Eagle" <jra...@eaglemds.com<mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com>> wrote on 09/14/2010 01:20:16 PM: > We've used the Catalyst family since the 3500 series (3512 & 3524) > back in 2001. We've used the 3550, 2950, 3560 & 3750/3750G. In the > last year, we've replaced everything with all PoE, 3560-48, 3750-24,& 3750-48. > > I like them, personally, but they are expensive and don't have a > lifetime warranty like the HP line - SmartNET is not inexpensive, > either. I have used ProCurve (2424M & 4000M). I've also worked with > 3Com & D-Link, but can't remember the specifics on either - for D- > Link, it was their "high-end" gear, if D-Link has such... > > What do you need in a managed switch, aside from being able to look > at port statistics? Do you have vlan and qos needs? Is VoIP in your > environment (or in your future? - if so, whose VoIP product do you > use or think will you use?) > > Jonathan L. 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