[c-nsp] Switch/router recommendations?

[Simon Hamilton-Wilkes]

Another Procurve vote here, I've been converted to the mid range 1U
models - 2900 and 3400 for 10 gig support at sensible pricing.
They're missing the kitchen sink functionality of the Cisco's, but at
half the price that's fine, and I have yet to have a problem of any
kind.

On 4/10/07, David Coulson <david at davidcoulson.net> wrote:
> Maybe my experience is different - When I had an issue, I got it
> escalated to the guys who write the code who got into my switches and
> debugged it for me. No e-mailing dumps back and forth. We're running
> their release code on some switches and engineering releases on the
> others, and we've not had problems.
>
> The code ~9 months ago was crappy - I'd give you that. It has improved
> significantly since then.
>
> Ed Ravin wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 06:31:48PM -0400, David Coulson wrote:
> >
> >> We've had good success with the Netgear GSM7328S switches. 1U (but
> >> pretty deep) with 24 10/100/1000 ports (4 SFP ports) and lots of L3
> >> features (OSPF, VRRP, Dot1q, etc). Probably sub-$2k if you buy it from
> >> the right place. We push 100Mbit+ through a pair of them, and they don't
> >> blink.
> >>
> >
> > The best thing I can say about a Netgear GSM73xx switch I worked with
> > last year was that it rebooted very quickly, much faster than any Cisco
> > I've ever met.
> >
> > It had a tendency to reboot while it was running at heavy load and
> > you entered silly commands on the CLI like "list interfaces".  This
> > was with the latest firmware.  Netgear support seems to be completely,
> > completely hopeless.  I filed the problem on their web site, including
> > the crash dump, and they called me back and said they would immediately
> > escalate to "Level 2".  A week later "Level 2" wrote back to us asking
> > about our serial number, because they couldn't process the complaint
> > without one.
> >
> > By the time Netgear called us back, we'd already bought an HP ProCurve
> > to replace it.  More money for the same or less features, but everything
> > works, the support group actually answers questions, and comes with
> > a real lifetime warranty.  It turns out Netgear's "limited lifetime
> > warranty" is only for a few years - that information is nowhere to be
> > had on their web site, you can only find out by opening up a support
> > query.
> >
> > Needless to say, I don't recommend anything from Netgear.
> >
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