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Re: Dell power connect switches.
From: Kevin C Miller <kevinm () andrew cmu edu>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 16:27:11 -0400
Can anyone tell me any good/bad points about them?
I looked at the 3248 and 5224s about a year ago, and would strongly advise against deploying any of the gear in a production environment. They had a number of issues with LACP/dot1q. The most severe issue is that the management interface would occasionally crash hard -- no control possible, even by serial line. It was still passing packets, but had to be reloaded to change anything. They were also a number of exploits of the web interface (incorrect implementations of access control, improper bounds checking, etc.)
You get what you pay for. I believe the switches are OEMed from Accton; you'll find other vendors (e.g. SMC) selling the same boxes.
-Kevin --------------------------------------------------- Kevin C. Miller <kcm () cmu edu>
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