being employed by a xyplex-nbase reseller, i read the article with mixed emotions. yes, it's nice to see people using linux and oss to build these kinds of products, but you must consider *who* is building the products. having worked with the xyplex gear before the mrv buyout and subsequent merge of the xyplex and nbase product lines, i have a place in my heart for the xyplex chassis solutions (network 9000's). yes, they're slow and limited, but i sleep well at night knowing that we have 100 or so of the 15-slot chassis out there at customer sites. historically, the xyplex products have been rock-solid. but, with the merger of the two companies, the new products leave little to be excited about. anything that comes from nbase is inherently flawed, from my experience. these people can't seem to make a product that can gracefully deal with spanning tree. how can they be expected to create something that's competitive with today's gigabit switch-router manufacturers. unfortunately, most all of the new xyplex-nbase product line is developed by nbase engineers. so, being the devil's advocate that i am, i'll just have to wait and be amazed if they actually make a worthwhile product.
i too find it hard to belive that the screws all came apart in shipping. but i won't waste bandwidth to talk about that. what troubles me is that someone would pay $200 to fix a computer "broken during shipping." maybe it wasn't insured, but i would hope people would have more sense than to ship an expensive device w/ no damage insurance. i need to take a moment.....
i'm using netcom w/ redhat 5.1 and 5.2. no problems here. if you read the README.linux in/usr/doc/ppp-version_num, you should notice a guy from netcom participated in writing it...
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being employed by a xyplex-nbase reseller, i read
the article with mixed emotions. yes, it's nice to
see people using linux and oss to build these kinds of products, but you must consider *who* is
building the products. having worked with the
xyplex gear before the mrv buyout and subsequent
merge of the xyplex and nbase product lines, i have a place in my heart for the xyplex chassis solutions (network 9000's). yes, they're slow and
limited, but i sleep well at night knowing that we have 100 or so of the 15-slot chassis out there at
customer sites. historically, the xyplex products have been rock-solid. but, with the merger of the two companies, the new products leave little to be excited about. anything that comes from nbase is inherently flawed, from my experience. these people can't seem to make a product that can gracefully deal with spanning tree. how can they be expected to create something that's competitive with today's gigabit switch-router manufacturers. unfortunately, most all of the new xyplex-nbase product line is developed by nbase engineers. so, being the devil's advocate that i am, i'll just have to wait and be amazed if they actually make a worthwhile product.
..ok, now i'll step down from the soapbox.....
i too find it hard to belive that the screws all
came apart in shipping. but i won't waste bandwidth to talk about that. what troubles me is that someone would pay $200 to fix a computer "broken during shipping." maybe it wasn't insured, but i would hope people would have more sense than to ship an expensive device w/ no damage insurance. i need to take a moment.....
i'm using netcom w/ redhat 5.1 and 5.2. no problems here. if you read the README.linux in /usr/doc/ppp-version_num, you should notice a guy from netcom participated in writing it...