Re: [luv-talk] limit concurrent connections with squid - luv-talk

30 May 2012

James Harper 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 (to be honest i would recommend the hp
 > 1810 or cisco sr300 these days and avoid the srw switches but based on the
 > branding this has been around for a while.)
 >
 > and i guess they still have the horrendous IE only ui (btw you can actually get
 > a serial connection that is less fail on the switches http://www.crc.id.au/real-
 > console-on-linksys-srw2024-switch/ 
Someone, i.e. not me, ought to start a site that lists every switch
imaginable, how to get to its real (i.e. serial or SSH) UI, and just
how shit and limited that UI is.

\begin{rant}

The vendors are useless.

Last time I had to buy a switch, you call up the vendor and say "I
want one with serial management goddammit" and they say "yeah sure no
worries it has a serial port", and you unbox it and within five
seconds discover that the "serial interface" is a curses-type screen
with about two settings: "IP for web UI" and "password for web UI".

I found out about ^Z (as the link above) about a day later, but I sure
as shit didn't learn about it from the vendor.  Nor, obviously, was
there any documented about where its UI differed from normal IOS.

I remember a different switch with an "IOS-like" interface that
actually had typos in the command set (e.g. you had to type
"cnofigure" instead of "configure").

This fad of dumping everthing into the browser needs to FOAD.

\end{rant}