out of band management gear

Mon Feb 24 04:57:12 UTC 2014

Cisco 1921 w/ LTE WAN interface have worked fantastic us.

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 9:16 PM, joel jaeggli <joelja at bogus.com> wrote:

> On 2/21/14, 12:27 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote:
> >
> > OpenGear's newer stuff is Gigabit (SFP even).
> >
> > I've not seen any real switch made in the last decade that has a problem
> with 100Mb/s connections. Ancient cisco, maybe had issues.
> >
>
> there are a substantial number of 10Gb/s switch that cannot do tri-rate
> on copper sfps.
>
> in previous $job oob--ilo-ports doing WOL/ and cdu(s) were the annoying
> 100Mbs/s only devices. terminal servers (all advocent in this case) made
> the jump aleady.
>
> > thanks,
> > -Randy
> >
> > --
> > Randy Carpenter
> > Vice President - IT Services
> > First Network Group, Inc.
> > (800)578-6381, Opt. 1
> > http://www.network1.net
> > http://www.facebook.com/FirstNetworkGroup
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> We're really pleased with the Perle IOLAN line. They even have a gigabit
> >> port without a $10k price tag. Amazing!
> >>
> >> It really dumbfounds me why so many vendors are still putting 10/100
> >> Ethernet ports on their OOB management (looking at you OpenGear).
> >> Especially a PITA today since many switchports today don't support links
> >> speeds less than a gigabit.
> >>
> >> -richard
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Hank Disuko <gourmetcisco at hotmail.com
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi folks,
> >>> I wonder if anyone has good experiences to share with out-of-band
> hardware?
> >>> I'm looking for a good OOB hardware vendor.  I need to manage my
> >>> routers/switches/firewalls in a datacenter located overseas, and I'm
> >>> looking to setup a good serial console server via an OOB link.
> >>> I've been looking at Lantronix, OpenGear, Raritan...but they all seem
> to
> >>> have the same basic features.  I'm having trouble really
> differentiating
> >>> them.
> >>> I'm interested in analog modem, cellular options for my OOB link.  Or
> even
> >>> a secondary internet circuit either wired or wifi if the DC has that
> option
> >>> available.
> >>> Any good suggestions or experiences with a current OOB solution out
> there?
> >>>  What are you doing for your OOB management?
> >>> thanks,Hank
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
>

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