On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 07:53:32PM +1000, Kevin wrote:
From my experiance with the srw stuff it's not that the system is incapable of serving that many connections it's just that the software is absolutely shit.the srw2048 is not something you could replace with an eepc or simliar it's a layer 2 48 port switch that is fairly cheap
sorry, my mistake. i assumed he was talking about one of the linksys WRT type devices. are there any alternative linux firmware replacements for it? netgear make a halfway decent 48 port switch, GS748TAU. IIRC they were about $900 each when i bought a bunch of them back in 2008 or so for work (as an alternative to ciscos that were closer to $12K each IIRC). a quick google search says they're about $600 now. there's probably some things a cisco could do that these couldn't but a) i didn't need them, and b) they weren't worth paying more than 12 times the price for. I bought 6 of them at the time, i think, for under $6000. i couldn't have bought even 1 of the ciscos for that amount, and buying 6 of them would have cost about $72K. they had (prob. still have) a crappy but functional web interface (it worked in linux w/ iceweasel, anyway) and no command line that i ever discovered but they never caused me any grief. craig ps: generally, i like cisco gear (real cisco, not linksys) - it's usually well made, solid, and reliable. the only problem is that it's absurdly overpriced for what it is and what you get. corporate pricing for people who don't dare buy anything else (unless it's some other nobody-ever-gets-fired-for-buying big name with similar absurd prices) in case they get blamed if something ever goes wrong. somehow i missed the brain-washing sessions at cisco-sponsored conferences where they take all the bright young network engineers, pump them full of booze and ego-multiplying bullshit sessions and cisco branding propaganda and turn them into True Believers incapable of any critical thought. they probably spotted me as a cynical advertising-resistant disruptive influence or something. -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> BOFH excuse #69: knot in cables caused data stream to become twisted and kinked