Re: Recommendations for router with routed copper gig-e ports?

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Feb 16, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Joe Abley wrote:

> On 2010-02-14, at 12:41, Lorell Hathcock wrote:
>
> > My problem on the redesign is I want to provide routed, copper gig-e ports
> > at a reasonable price per port.
>
> Force10 S25N/S50N. http://www.force10networks.com/products/s50n.asp
>
> If you look for used models, make sure they're not so old that they can't run FTOS. You don't want SFTOS, which is 
> what the older switches run.
>
> They work nicely in a stack, when you find you need to grow.
>
>
> Joe

I had absolutely horrible experiences with SFTOS.  The upgrade to FTOS was not pleasant.
Once they were running on FTOS, they weren't horrible, but, I will never buy another one.

Owen