Quanta LB4M

[nanog at ics-il.net (Mike Hammett)]

*nods* I'm surprised that I missed that announcement until this morning. Given the love\hate I have with UBNT, I may end up getting them... and then hating myself for it. 

Those in the WISP business will understand. For those not in the WISP business, case of vendor doesn't listen on a regular enough basis. I have some of their products and love them to death. The others I beat over their heads with the issues. Wait, that gave me an idea for the next time I see them... 

Last February at the spring WISPA show, I gave several vendors an SFP. I've been requesting SFP cage on many products for many years (sometimes multiple generations of product) only to largely be ignored. I concluded that their engineering teams must not know what SFPs are and thus gave one to each of them to take back to their engineering teams so they could figure out how to make it happen. 




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----- Original Message -----

From: "Brielle Bruns" <bruns at 2mbit.com> 
To: nanog at nanog.org 
Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2015 2:03:00 PM 
Subject: Re: Quanta LB4M 

On 6/28/15 12:50 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: 
> Has anyone gotten a "non-factory" firmware to go onto these guys? There are a couple threads on Google that are inconclusive. There are rumors that it's the same as a Dell something or an HP something else, but no one has outright said, "I loaded a Dell XXXX firmware onto it and solved all of the random ass bugs." 
> 
> If I didn't already have a couple of stacked Extreme x400s, I'd consider these at home, but they're somewhat buggy. 
> 
> Quanta told me to contact whomever I bought it from... but I don't think the random guy on eBay is going to have much of anything useful to say. 
> 


Oh FSM, those things. Urgh. 

They are like the EIF24G series and 10GCF from Foundry - OEM devices 
that vendors can just rebrand with their own logos and sell. 

I've tried swapping the firmware on the EIF24G-As and the Dell 
equivalent, and its been a miss every time. Got several of them at one 
point with 'defective ports' that magically got fixed with a firmware 
upgrade. 

Even with the firmware upgrades, STP was a hot mess on them causing odd 
blocking situations. 

Your better off going with something like the new Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch Lite. 


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Brielle Bruns 
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