[nflug] Routers switches and the urge to get very vocal with a Dell tech support rep

[Brad Bartram]

My recommendation is that since you already spent the cash - Beat the
dell rep.  As with many of the problems I've had with various bits of
dell hardware and weird failures for it to do what the specs say it
does, it may be a firmware or OS upgrade.  If you talk to the right
tech, you may get lucky - if not, then move onto other solutions.

Brad

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Richard Hubbard <rhubby at yahoo.com> wrote:
> A number of months ago, I purchased a Dell 6224, layer 3 switch, with the
> idea of using it to break my 150+ machine network into subnets, primarily so
> that some tech in a lab wouldn't shut down the network with a broadcast
> storm.
>
> According to Dell, this is what I should be able to do.
>
> According to me, every set of instructions we got to do a simple "break your
> network into 8 IP subnets" has not worked.
>
> Which brings up 3 possible solutions
> 1. Beat a Dell rep with a stick until he gets an engineer who is not doing a
> visual inspection of his own lower intestine.
> 2. Bite the bullet, and get recommendations for something that is advertised
> as a "real router". Gigabit ethernet is a requirement.
> 3. Build a cheap box and make a router using linux.
>
> Any advice with the above would be helpful. Specifically regarding 2 (What
> can I get that is inexpensive, does Gigabit ethernet, and doesn't
> necessarily include a bunch of crap I don't want, like ISDN, firewalls,
> proxys, etc), or 3 (Inexpensive motherboards/rack mounts/PCIe Network cards,
> etc).
> One thing I am curious about, I seem to remember from long long ago, that
> linux only supported 4 network cards. Is this the case for real, or just a
> bad memory?
>
> Thanks!
>
> <span style="font-family:comic sans ms;">Richard Hubbard </span>
> ATTO Technology Inc
>
>
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