[f-nsp] WSM in GTC Load Balancer Rebooting...

[Dave Temkin]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, John G. wrote:

> greetings list,
>
> has anyone experienced their Web Switch Module rebooting in their GTC's or
> other Foundry Load Balancing gear?
>
> i am about FED up with this company.  i curse the day we ever decided to go
> with Foundry.
>
> let me also pose the question to this list:
>
> do you like your Foundry gear?  how do you compare this company to other
> gear makes like Cisco, F5, Juniper, etc?
>
> my iniital post was not to rag on this company but i can't help myself.  i
> have never in my decade long IT career experienced such frustration with a
> hardware manufacturer or their company support system.
>
> so my questions are:
>
> 1) anyone out there have foundry LB'ers that have their WSM reboot/crash
> every so often

Yes.  Could be anything from a software bug to a hardware issue.  I've
seen many of both in the past couple of years working with this gear.


>
> and
>
> 2) do you like foundry?

I like the people at Foundry.  I feel the SI team, as small as they are,
is a dedicated group of people and means well.  I also feel like it's an
outdated platform and with each new release they're putting more lipstick on the
pig.  Foundry has lost many critical SI people (including the original
architect) and so is scrambling to put the pieces together into something
that makes sense.

-Dave