Re: Dell power connect switches.

2004-05-21 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 20-mei-04, at 22:42, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: If you like the management interface of your Dells then they'll most likely perform what you need in the pure "shuffle packets"-area as long as you do IPv4 unicast. If you want to muck around with multicast, several vlans perhaps leaking multicas

Re: Dell power connect switches.

2004-05-21 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 20-mei-04, at 22:10, Joel Perez wrote: We are planning to deploy several Dell PowerConnect 3324, 3348 and 6024 switches on our network. No real complaints. The management is a bit unusual as it's menu-based and the telnet session always makes the cursor disappear on my vt100 windows... Then th

RE: Dell power connect switches.

2004-05-21 Thread Joel Perez
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Re: Dell power connect switches.

2004-05-20 Thread jlewis
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Joel Perez wrote: > We are planning to deploy several Dell PowerConnect 3324, 3348 and 6024 > switches on our network. I don't know how related they are (if at all), but we were suckered into buying several Dell PowerConnect 3248's some time ago. We have a serious issue wit

Re: Dell power connect switches.

2004-05-20 Thread Joel Jaeggli
dell managed switches = accton and smc managed switches the cli is cisco style. early revs of their firmware had frequent managemnt interface crashes, that appears to be mostly fixed in more recent builds. joelja On Thu, 20 May 2004, Joel Perez wrote: > > Good afternoon, > > > We are pla

Re: Dell power connect switches.

2004-05-20 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Joel Perez wrote: > out there. Will this be a case of "you get what you pay for" or are they > really good performing units? > > I really have not been able to find any lists or other sources with > comments on these units. I'd appreciate any info you guys might have. In th

Re: Dell power connect switches.

2004-05-20 Thread Kevin C Miller
Can anyone tell me any good/bad points about them? I looked at the 3248 and 5224s about a year ago, and would strongly advise against deploying any of the gear in a production environment. They had a number of issues with LACP/dot1q. The most severe issue is that the management interface would

Dell power connect switches.

2004-05-20 Thread Joel Perez
Good afternoon, We are planning to deploy several Dell PowerConnect 3324, 3348 and 6024 switches on our network. We currently have between 200-300 users and servers that these switches will service. We are also planning to add about 300-400 more users in the next 2-3 mos. 85% of the users are