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

[Chris Moore - GMD]

I wonder if that blows my theory about the unique firmware out of the water
to some extent?
 
We experienced the EXACT same problem with our Dell's. It's just that the
management interface goes down. Dell said it was due to a lot of multicast
traffic on the network - but they were never able to prove that to me. The
theory was that when the switch got busy, it'd drop management in favor of
switching. It took a couple of firmware upgrades but they finally seem to
have a handle on the problem. They still have various annoyances, however.
 
They might get mad and cut off your support, but you could tell them to call
Dell about the problem ;-)
 
C

-----Original Message-----
From: foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net]On Behalf Of Cliff Fogle
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 3:26 PM
To: foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: [BULK] - [f-nsp] Foundry Edge Switches (24/48G)


They are awful.  I have 5 25G-A installed.  Recently one went offline.  Is
switching/forwarding just fine, but I can't remotely manage it any longer.
 
Then...this morning, randomly, all 5 are now in the same state.  From the
console they cannot even ping themselves.  No telnet, ssh, http or snmp.
Nothing.  My core FI1500 has an arp entry for the management ip
interface...but I can't reach them.  Foundry is completely stumped, I have a
developer coming onsite to check them out.  But I'm honestly trying to get
them to take them back and give me some of the new FI X series in return.
 
Stay away from the EI's.
 
 

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