[f-nsp] ServerIron 4G Dest-NAT

Gerald Krause gk at ax.tc
Tue Jan 22 12:42:04 EST 2008


On Tuesday 22 January 2008 18:03:16 John G. wrote:
> yes, those boxes can do that although i would caution u on the SI4G.  we
> tried running those boxes and they sucked monkey nuts.
>
> they would just all of a sudden decide to stop passing network traffic. 
> and the real kicker was that we had 2 running in HA mode!!  the secondary
> still saw the primary as up but the primary wouldn't respond to any network
> requests.  lame!!! painful to troubleshoot.  we had to scream at foundry to
> get them to take those boat anchors back and give us the GTCs.  i would
> make sure they have fixed their problem with these things... something to
> do with some internal buffer filling up and not doing the standard FIFO
> thing or some such.

Huh, that makes me scary :-/. Our order for two SI4G-PREMs (for HA) is already 
on the way and I have to play with them within a couple of days. Which SW 
release did you used until you brought them back?

-- 
Gerald   (ax/tc)



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