[c-nsp] IEEE 802.3ad interoperability

[Adam Greene]

Thanks Greg and Andrew,

That does help to allay my fears. Yes, I think my trepidation with Netgear 
is more imagined than real at this point ... I have heard positive things 
from partners who deploy them, and the ones I've worked with directly have 
been solid up to now ....

It's more a "Cisco works, I love Cisco" kind of bias against everything 
non-Cisco, I think.

Anyways, I think in this case we're going to try the Netgear.

I appreciate it.

Adam

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Boehnlein" <damin at nacs.net>
To: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] IEEE 802.3ad interoperability


>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Thinking of firing up LACP between a Cisco 3560G and a Netgear (yes
>> > a Netgear -- ugh) gigabit switch (GSM7224).
>
> Don't be hating on the Netgear! Our entire switching core (L2 and L3) is
> based on Netgear GSM series equipment. Don't underestimate their 
> enterprise
> hardware. Lifetime warranty, excellent support, well documented, easy to
> configure, low failure rate, does what it says it will do and is cost
> effective enough that you can buy 3 for the price of a single Cisco. Some 
> of
> their earlier firmware releases were a little shaky, but we've been on
> 6.2.0.14 on the GSM series for about a year now, and never looked back. We
> replaced a mish-mosh of various switches (Cisco, HP, Summit etc...) w/ a
> standard rollout (first using the FSM series, but later migrating to the 
> GSM
> series). Nothing but love for Netgear at this point.
>
> I have also deployed the Netgear stuff at about 20 customers so far, and
> aside from one issue that was my own fault w/ regards to a firmware 
> upgrade,
> we haven't had any issues w/ the deployments.
>
>> > Should LACP just work? Or is this the kind of thing where if any
>> > kind of reliability is desired, I need to pop in another Cisco on
>> > the other end ...
>
> LACP between Netgear and Cisco should work as long as they both adhere to
> the 802.3ad specs. There are other people I know that have done it, but
> since we are all Netgear now I can't speak to it personally. I know that
> Netgear's 802.3ad implementation plays nice w/ the Linux implementation
> (Astaro in our case!).
>
>
>
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