[tech] Olive (Cisco 2900) decomissioned

[Duncan Sargeant]

Yes, Layer 3.  They do OSPF and all sorts of fancy stuff.  Not sure about BGP.

,dunc

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> 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.
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> are these L3 type devices?
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> Adrian
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>>
>> ,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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