[tech] Olive (Cisco 2900) decomissioned

Adrian Chadd adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Sat Sep 20 17:05:40 WST 2008


On Sat, Sep 20, 2008, Duncan Sargeant wrote:
> Its probably overkill, well hell its definitely overkill, but I've got
> 4 x Nortel 8610 switches to give away to a good home.  Does UCC want
> them?  There are various numbers of 48-port 10/100 cards, 8-port GBIC
> (with GBICs) cards, and an 8-port GigE UTP copper card.

are these L3 type devices?



Adrian

> 
> ,dunc
> 
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> >
> > G'day,
> >
> > Would UCC like my 2948G donated? I really haven't got any need for
> > it anymore.
> >
> >
> >
> > Adrian
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008, David Adam wrote:
> >> Because the best time to make core network changes is clearly when the
> >> network is in heavy use, I used the Charity Vigil to finally decomission
> >> Olive, our Cisco 2900, which has served as one of the core switches for a
> >> good length of time.
> >>
> >> In the process I discovered that Lorenzo's Fa0/48 is dead, and the LEDs
> >> on the entire fourth FastEthernet module are broken. Exciting times.
> >>
> >> Still, this reduces the bottlenecks in the UCC network so that all
> >> 100-megabit ports are sharing a 1-gigabit inter-switch trunk, rather than
> >> some being limited to sharing another 100meg.
> >>
> >> David Adam
> >> UCC Wheel Member - Ask Me About Our SLA!
> >> zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
> >
> >
> >


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