Oh yes, dig it out and present before end of day.... On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Steven M. Caesare <scaes...@caesare.com>wrote:
> I guess I should dust off the evaluation I did 6 years ago where I > recommended Cisco over Enterasys and it actually would have been cheaper? > > > > Oh… it was over-ruled by the PHB CTO at that time because going Cisco would > have been too similar to the gear used by the institute’s central IT > organization, and it might have made it too easy for them to “take over”. > > > > I’m sure that fact that my findings countered his recommendation made 2 > years earlier had nothing to do with it… > > > > -sc > > > > *From:* Don Ely [mailto:don....@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:35 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Enterasys gear... > > > > <Network Bigot> > > Cisco, Extreme, or Foundry > > </Network Bigot> > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Steven M. Caesare <scaes...@caesare.com> > wrote: > > …blows chunks. > > > > We had two 10Gb switches(C5’s) in the datacenter go south last night.... > both locking up the port on the CORE switch(S4) they were connected to. > These switches were just installed last Friday. > > > > Of course, the core switch shows an error condition on the front panel LED > (solid orange), and activity on that port simply ceases, yet the CLI happily > reports that port connection status is OK. > > > > This is the 4th C5 out of less than 10 that we’ve had issues with. Their > other models and previous generation gear all seems to have similar issues. > > > > We have been stuck with it here for a while now, but this piece of straw > may have broken the camel’s back. > > > > -sc > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
