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Outbursts for 29 March 2010

29th March 2010 by 1 Comment
  • HP has a Cat6500 equivalent ?

    I was flipping through a HP ProCurve product thingie and saw this. Do they really think that they have a product that has the same feature set as the C6500 ? Or is that just marketing spin.
    Problem is, it’s quite difficult to find detailed information on the HP website.

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  • TextExpander 3 – Free Video Tutorial

    If you use a MAC (and why are you not ? then head over to ScreenCasts Online who have released a free tutorial (sponsored by Smile On My Mac) on the latest version of TextExpander.
    I found out several new features that I didn’t know. Show runs for about thirty five minutes.
    I am a subscriber Members Only version and highly recommend it. Learn more about your MAC than you ever knew possible.

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  • Coolest Software Registration Evar

    I just purchased the upgrade to Acorn from http://flyingmeat.com/acorn and got this registration popup from the software.
    So kewl.

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  • Why Outburst ?

    So it’s has seemed to me that I have been overly snarky at Etherealmind but that’s mostly the place that I write. And having an argument on Twitter is frustrating, pointless and deeply unsatisfying. I need something longer than a twitter, and less “solid” than a full fledged blog post.
    And from time to time I have these OUTBURSTS of activity that just create noise on both my blog and twitter. Therefore I have decided to create a new micro-blog called Outburst. 

    The idea is that partially complete ideas, or demented ravings, or incoherent musings can go here. And those people who don’t want to hear that noise, well, they don’t have to at the main blog.
    So, WELCOME, to OUTBURST.

    I think, SO ?

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About Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

He is a host on the Packet Pushers Podcast, blogger at EtherealMind.com and on Twitter @etherealmind and Google Plus

  • Ivan Brunello

    Just tested one as a L2 high-density access switch.
    Just a couple of comments:
    1) They seems to be a bit faster than Cisco on access (if you use 1Gig ports, they all work line-rate – even using sup720 w/ 6748 you get oversubscription), come w/ PoE, and as far as I saw, HP autonegotiation is a lot more mature than Cisco.
    (to be honest, gigabit-class modules, such as 6148A, got a lot better on autoneg than older ones)

    2) They use of standard protocols (NON-PV-STP/RSTP/MST, GVRP, LACP, LLDP), which require some planning and evaluation if you rely heavily on Cisco features (e.g. if you put an HP device between two Cisco ones, CDP flows transparently, and the Cisco devices appear as directly connected).

    3) Debug is far POOR than Cisco, but, as far as I saw, there is a little need.
    A wonderful “show log -r” show logs starting from the last event

    4) They don’t have the whole blades portfolio, but, at least, they can integrate a wireless controller, and some IPS modules.

    No tests on L3 (sorry, don’t trust, and they don’t compare).

    my two cents