17 Oct
2006
17 Oct
'06
11:32 a.m.
I'll grant that consumers are not buying
10G-capable switches today,
but it's interesting that such a new switch still expects you to
initially say "hello" with an RS232 interface. (OK, the default is
DHCP, but the point still stands).
I recently had occasion to configure a new low-end SMC switch (24
10/100 ports, four SFP 1000-capable ports; the 10/100 may actually be
10/100/1000).
It didn't even *have* a serial port. Which was very annoying, too,
especially since the manual did not include a description of how to
reset it to factory settings. (Fortunately, it still had the defaults,
and its Web(!) configuration interface had a help page which did
describe that mechanism.)
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