In the immortal words of mark (mds@gbnet.net):
This wasn't the only problem we had with Cabletron kit though - there were some horrors with the spanning tree reconfigurations, and pakcet fragmentation, and adjacent switches somehow bollixing sets of ports on other switches.
Ho ho ho. It gets even worse once you turn on their "SecureFast" VLAN software (which is neither) and your "Smart" switch (which is not) starts playing entertaining games by caching arps and auto-disabling ports for you. Ever had moving a single machine from one port to another turn into a three hour enterprise involving repeated calls to a senior support engineer? "You will..."
Not that I'm even slightly bitter about having had to manage one of those damned things for 9 hellish months.
We now return you to our regularly schedule list.
-n
p.s. never, ever buy Cabletron. never.
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