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Re: dell switch config export


From: "Mark D. Nagel" <mnagel () willingminds com>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:01:40 -0700



Ryan Malayter <malayter () gmail com> wrote:

Despite the terrible GUI and passable CLI, we're found the our 6248s to
be 
remarkable stable and bug free. Some have been up for more than 3
years, 
and all the things you expect to be problematic on cheap switches 
(cross-stack LACP, multicast, MSTP, QoS) work perfectly.

I would agree they are passable, but they have broken sFlow support (e.g., not supported on LAGs, though this is 
documented nowhere, sFlow generates invalid data when it does work, stack management is not even close to appropriate 
for production environments, almost any change requires a full stack reset, and stack member flash storage failures are 
way too common).  That said, at least they try with sFlow, just wish they would get it working.

Mark


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