[c-nsp] Cisco RPS for 3550 switch

[Adrian Chadd]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007, Terje Bless wrote:

> On the RPS-300, we didn't do the checking we should have before buying
> and ended up with what for us were essentially 30 boat anchors. My
> conclusion in the end was that it's much better to keep (in our case)
> a bunch of spare 3524s (another "brilliant" purchase, *sigh*) and
> replace the entire unit in case of PSU (or other) failure. The RPS-300
> and its ilk simply makes zero sense to me (even if it's now dirt
> cheap).

Our cisco sales guy (from a job far in my past) said if we ever had
to press the button on the RPS300 -ever- he'd buy us all a bottle
of scotch.

I was right, we had to push all the buttons once across campus -
and I'm still waiting for that bottle..




Adrian