It's not like a PC where the parts are easily replaceable.

I don't like this switch anyways. Some crap dell.

if you got 4 grand to just give away you know what im gonna say...

thanks for working on upgrades.

thats what.












(and dont rmt)

I have a couple of fairly old, but reliable, procuves lying around after our system upgrade last year. I think one ran for two years straight. If you are desperate I can ship em.

I also have a Cisco still in the box we had as a backup but never needed it.

I will check to see if it's still there next time I am at the office.

Getting a couple PM's so want to clarify.

Obviously the type of switch we need brand new runs for over $1k (Procurve) or over $2k (Cisco). We're not talking about your average 10/100 Netgear. I wouldn't put this request out there if it was simply purchasable for less than $1k (otherwise I would have just bought it, like we did with the hard drives a few weeks ago).

I'll probably need to buy one used, but I'm checking to see if anyone has one laying around first since I know many of you do work in IT.

To give a better idea of the types of models, I'm looking for something like these:

Procurve
J9021A
J9776A
J9279A

Cisco
2960G

I love those HP 2810 series. Good stuff.

I just put in a pair of Cisco Nexus 5k's at work but I think they would miss them from the data center.

Now you're getting into overkill, lol.

can send donations towards this via the normal link through nilborg?

Ugh, we experienced an awesome bug (and subsequent outages) with one of these once.... there was a bug in the firmware that was triggered simply by executing a show command... yes.... a show command.... effectively locking up the switch, requiring a hard reboot.

We didn't know what caused the lockup the first time.... so it happened a few more times over the course of troubleshooting the first outage.

That was not a fun weekend.

Took us months to trust touching those switches outside of a scheduled downtime change window because of that.....