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Date:      Fri, 04 Feb 2000 08:26:15 -0600
From:      Troy Kittrell <troyk@basspro.com>
To:        Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask@valueclick.com>
Cc:        Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>, Mark Holloway <mholloway@flashmail.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: O/T: Foundry
Message-ID:  <389AE187.9D375DAA@basspro.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002040152120.19042-100000@impatience.valueclick.com>

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The cli interface wasn't well rated in anything I read while researching the
ServerIrons. We went ahead and purchased the GUI for it. IMHO, anyone
considering purchasing them should just include the GUI and be done with it.

Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Chris Dillon wrote:
>
> ...
> > Last time someone showed one of these things to me, it was using a PPC
> > processor, not an Alpha.  When did they change, and which one are they
> > using right now?  Anyway, I was pretty impressed with it. :-)
>
> I could only remember the login details for one several months old, but
> yes, that one is a ppc.
>
> telnet@lb01#sh ver
>  SW: Version 05.0.03T12 Copyright (c) 1996-1999 Foundry Networks, Inc.
>      Compiled on Jun 29 1999 at 10:56:44 labeled as SLB05003
>  HW: ServerIron Switch, serial number 041890
>  240 MHz Power PC processor 603 (revision 7) with 32756K bytes of DRAM
>   16 100BaseT interfaces with Level 1 Transceiver LXT975
>    2 GIGA uplink interfaces, SX
> ...
>
> We have a bunch of them, and they work alright I think (not my
> department). The cli is really lame, or at least the hours I played with
> them it worn out my patience pretty fast.
>
>  - ask
>
> --
> ask bjoern hansen - <http://www.netcetera.dk/~ask/>;
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