[mythtv-users] Gigabit switch
Mark
fairlane at springcom.com
Sat Aug 5 01:31:01 UTC 2006
chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:
>Does gmail always use teletype formatting to do bold print
>("M^HMa^Har^Hrk^Hk") or is there a way for people to turn it off?
>
>On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:48:39AM -0400, Michael MacLeod wrote:
>
>
>>On 8/3/06, Mark (home) <______________________> wrote:
>> Uh, I don't know that SMC really is the level of quality I'm looking
>> for.
>>I just saw this discussion, and are gigabit switches really this unreliable? Is
>>it just that the technology hasn't matured, or what? And are we discussing
>>consumer level stuff that I'd find in future shop, or more industrial units?
>>
>>
>
>While it's always possible for commercial stuff to die, it's
>something I've pretty much come to expect from consumer-grade
>networking gear. My Linksys stuff tends to last 2 or 3 years, but
>the one time I bought an SMC wireless router it was pure garbage
>right from the beginning - the box would simply lock up and needed
>to be power-cycled before it would work again. It wasn't a heat
>issue. The discussion on various forums was that they had a known
>bug in the firmware but the guys at SMC refused to offer a patched
>version. I'll never touch SMC gear again...
>
>
Agreed. I've been slowly transitioning all my stuff over to more
enterprize level stuff as the consumer stuff
becomes flaky. I have a SMC BR7004 router that's the last pc of
consumer-ish stuff left. It's definitely got a
screw loose, and needs a periodic reboot every few days, but I've not
found anything to replace it with that's
more high end. Any suggestions? Even enterprize stuff goes flaky
after a while. I have an Avaya access point
that needs a power cycle every few days, and the 3Com switches need a
periodic cycle. I'm going to be going
to gigabit in the next year or so, and I'm going to pitch the SMC
router, but don't want to run a linux server as a gateway.
I've got enough computers around here running 24/7 that it's noticeable
on the power bill. Eventually I'm going to replace
my webserver with a dual proc RAID box that will double duty as myth
backend, webserver, email/Imap server, and asterix
server. Then everything else will be a diskless box netbooting an
image off the server. So the server will be the only
thing running 24/7. I want the rest of the hardware to be rock solid
under a heavy load.
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