by Guest » Fri Aug 05, 2005 4:05 am
Gday Ivor, Firstly, Id like to assure anyone reading this, not to be put off by the Linksys SxE switches, they really are pretty good. Secondly, Ivor I think wed better agree to disagree on this, as we are coming from two very different directions.You are clearly very knowledgeable about both networking and the Linksys/Cisco products and have had a lot of time to absorb the various differences.I, on the other hand, work in the SME space. This space is dominated by price and variety, I don think I would have one client that uses all of a single type/vendors products. Argh!!!!! I just spent approx 2hrs researching my reply, only to get an error, when I submitted, and then the above text was all that was retained. Will know better, next time to write my response in Notepad first.Anyway, I don have any more time to spend on this, so forgive my brevity, the previous response was much nicer.. Yes you are right, had I more time I would clearly have made a different choice RE SFE1000P/SFE2000, but the brief descriptions on the model page is misleading. There are a lot of differences between the SxE1 and SxE2 ranges, for example non stacking, Fanless and PoE. So I would have thought highlighting the differences would be more helpful. You have to remember that when we call suppliers they don necessarily have everything in stock, so our choice (while on the phone) was... SFE1000P or SGE2000...In fact the most helpful would be a feature Matrix.I retract my crack about the IOS, it was not called for, the SxE are really good value for money. RE Case# sorry I had that on a postit, which I think has since gone into the bin. when I didn think I needed it.I do think your Helpdesk needs more organisational training though. There is no reason I can think of why (if the answer was so obvious....) that after 3 calls and being told of a "Team Meeting" to discuss the issue, it wasn resolved. (Note the 2nd call was 2hrs+ and they had full remote control of the PC). Thanks for the Ref guide, yes I had read this and the statement "Combining VLANs and GARP (Generic Attribute Registration Protocol) allows network managers to define network nodes into Broadcast domains." was what got me on the wrong track RE: GARP/GVRP. As you say, they do a similar thing at Layer2. So for a Network Engineer it may be obvious, but for the rest of us that don live and breathe the OSI Model, the difference is pretty subtle. Anyway, bottom line for me is:I will continue to buy Linksys switches from Cisco, and would recommend them to anyone. But will obviously take more care in the future RE Specs, and hopefully not get the same experience when I call the Helpdesk next time, and will remember to post to this forum! Rgds Ben.
Gday Ivor, Firstly, Id like to assure anyone reading this, not to be put off by the Linksys SxE switches, they really are pretty good. Secondly, Ivor I think wed better agree to disagree on this, as we are coming from two very different directions.You are clearly very knowledgeable about both networking and the Linksys/Cisco products and have had a lot of time to absorb the various differences.I, on the other hand, work in the SME space. This space is dominated by price and variety, I don think I would have one client that uses all of a single type/vendors products. Argh!!!!! I just spent approx 2hrs researching my reply, only to get an error, when I submitted, and then the above text was all that was retained. Will know better, next time to write my response in Notepad first.Anyway, I don have any more time to spend on this, so forgive my brevity, the previous response was much nicer.. Yes you are right, had I more time I would clearly have made a different choice RE SFE1000P/SFE2000, but the brief descriptions on the model page is misleading. There are a lot of differences between the SxE1 and SxE2 ranges, for example non stacking, Fanless and PoE. So I would have thought highlighting the differences would be more helpful. You have to remember that when we call suppliers they don necessarily have everything in stock, so our choice (while on the phone) was... SFE1000P or SGE2000...In fact the most helpful would be a feature Matrix.I retract my crack about the IOS, it was not called for, the SxE are really good value for money. RE Case# sorry I had that on a postit, which I think has since gone into the bin. when I didn think I needed it.I do think your Helpdesk needs more organisational training though. There is no reason I can think of why (if the answer was so obvious....) that after 3 calls and being told of a "Team Meeting" to discuss the issue, it wasn resolved. (Note the 2nd call was 2hrs+ and they had full remote control of the PC). Thanks for the Ref guide, yes I had read this and the statement "Combining VLANs and GARP (Generic Attribute Registration Protocol) allows network managers to define network nodes into Broadcast domains." was what got me on the wrong track RE: GARP/GVRP. As you say, they do a similar thing at Layer2. So for a Network Engineer it may be obvious, but for the rest of us that don live and breathe the OSI Model, the difference is pretty subtle. Anyway, bottom line for me is:I will continue to buy Linksys switches from Cisco, and would recommend them to anyone. But will obviously take more care in the future RE Specs, and hopefully not get the same experience when I call the Helpdesk next time, and will remember to post to this forum! Rgds Ben.