18 Dec
1999
18 Dec
'99
1:10 a.m.
mark writes:
This wasn't the only problem we had with Cabletron kit though -
Did you enjoy the cranky, confusing and decidedly non-orthogonal telnet UI? That sad piece of work in my ESX1320 switch soured me wrt Cabletron almost immediately after getting it. It looked to me that it had been designed with the single goal of fitting it into a 2K corner of ROM.
I couldn't even upgrade the firmware from that UI. Was forced to handcraft a sequence of SNMP writes to accomplish that. Pahh!
Solid hardware, I'll admit. No failures at all in 5 years.
We'll probably give that thing away now (to someone I don't like :-)
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