[f-nsp] Foundry Edge Switches (24/48G)

[Chris Moore - GMD]

The EdgeIron switches are not actually made by Foundry - can't remember who
OEMs them though.....I have experince w/ the same hardware sold by Dell, and
most of it is bad. A lot of crashes for various reasons. It's mostly been
firmware issues though, and each company runs their own firmware on the
hardware. They do have some hardware limitrations as well....a lot of
limitations on mirroring ports come to mind.

Anyway, I've been running EdgeIron 9604s for a couple months and so farm am
extremely pleased. Using both Layer 2 and Layer 3 VLANS. Layer 3 is routing
using OSPF and VRRP between a pair of 9604s. So far they've been rock solid.

-Chris

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net]On Behalf Of Niels Bakker
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 6:01 PM
To: foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: [BULK] - Re: [f-nsp] Foundry Edge Switches (24/48G)


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* temkin at sig.com (Temkin, David) [Thu 22 Apr 2004, 17:15 CEST]:
> If anyone here has any experience with the mid-range Foundry edge
> switches (24G, 48G), please contact me off-list.  I'd like to hear any
> info about the stability of them as well as general experiences with
> Foundry vs. Cisco for this type of application (edge) while keeping a
> Cisco core...

I've got good experiences with FastIron Edge switches (24 or 48 ports
10/100, 2 ports 10/100/1000 or SFP), including the models supporting POE
(802.3af).  Haven't used them for anything besides switching in a
redundant network layout.  They're big but they work.

I've observed some issues with some of the EdgeIron series switches
which probably have been fixed in more recent versions of the software
than what we tested with halfway last year.


	-- Niels.

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