Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 12:38:24 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Long Day's Journey into <Bleep> Message-ID: <20110609183824.GA33714@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20110609183304.GB8057@thought.org> References: <20110609005656.GA9183@thought.org> <20110609035313.GA30448@guilt.hydra> <4DF049AC.3050403@radel.com> <20110609052113.GA4291@thought.org> <20110609053430.GA30732@guilt.hydra> <20110609183304.GB8057@thought.org>
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--IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 11:33:04AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 11:34:30PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > >=20 > > . . . but Cisco switches are overpriced crap. We were disconnecting the > > Netgear to replace it with a Cisco that offered a lot more functionalit= y, > > and administration turned out to be a fucking nightmare with that thing. > > It's like replacing Postfix with MS Exchange because you want integrated > > calendaring and all the other crap in the BusinessWeek full-page ad, th= en > > finding out that you basically need a full-time employee just to manage > > that one server. >=20 > LOL, man. But then, your troubles were at work, right? I mean > somewhere that has dozens or more people, users/computers going > thru the switch [?] Years ago I had as many a 6 > computers--including my daughter's ancient W2K on a Kayak and > wife's work laptop and my several tower and laptops going thru > the 16-porter. *Still*, I don't care, the daamn thing should=20 > have lasted longer than it did. =20 Actually, that was when I was the first and only paid employee of the Wikimedia Foundation. Everybody else was Jimmy Wales, his assistant at Bomis, and volunteers who "worked" with us remotely -- plus the whole Internet using Wikipedia. So, yeah . . . "dozens of people" sending traffic through the switch is a gross understatement. The switches I mentioned that I've had die off one port at a time, though, were not at the Wikimedia Foundation. They were my personal kit for my home networks over the years and, in one case, the main switch at a small consultancy where I was the Unix guru. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk3xEyAACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKXDUQCeK3gYHAl8o4KxW1/S+a3L93Q1 DOgAnjoRh1r5bbtl3PdN7UGC23y61vyi =xGF/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o--
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