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3300's Can't join a Mixed 45**.  We'd have to monitor it separately.
Troubleshooting, monitoring and management would be easier with another
4200/4500/4550.

Thank you,


*Levi Pederson*
Mankato Networks LLC
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 10:04 PM, Ben Wiechman <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> We may have a couple EX3300 as well. I can check tomorrow if there is any
> interest.
>
> On Sep 20, 2016 4:50 PM, "Ryan Goldberg" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> provided my work tonight goes as planned I can leave a:
>>
>> FPC 2            REV 18   750-021255   BQ0209437984      EX4200-48P, 48
>> POE
>>   CPU                     BUILTIN      BUILTIN           FPC CPU
>>   PIC 0                   BUILTIN      BUILTIN           48x 10/100/1000
>> Base-T
>>   PIC 1          REV 04   711-026017   CH0209419573      2x 10GE SFP+
>>
>>
>> in the mice cabinet (or elsewhere).
>>
>> note: no optics...  but I could leave a couple DACs probably
>>
>> I could leave 24 port non-POE 4200 if preferred.  Why do I have 48 port
>> poe switch at 511?  So many questions....
>>
>> Or........ I may have a 3300-24 available, which gives 4x SFP+ instead.
>>
>> Any preferences whilst I rummage through my oddball grab bag?​
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* MICE Discuss <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of
>> Jeremy Lumby <[log in to unmask]>
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 20, 2016 3:45 PM
>> *To:* [log in to unmask]
>> *Subject:* Re: [MICE-DISCUSS] EX4200 (1G Switch) Packet Loss -> 10G
>> Participants
>>
>>
>> I am in favor, THANKS GUYS!!!
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* MICE Discuss [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On Behalf
>> Of *Jason Hanke
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 20, 2016 3:41 PM
>> *To:* [log in to unmask]
>> *Subject:* Re: [MICE-DISCUSS] EX4200 (1G Switch) Packet Loss -> 10G
>> Participants
>>
>>
>>
>> Compudyne has offered to donate an EX4200 with a 2x10G uplink card to
>> MICE to help the cause.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Jeremy Lumby <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> I am in favor of a regular layer 2 uplink.  I think the main reason I
>> feel this way is it is industry standard, and then the switch has its own
>> forwarding table.  We have seen issues in the past where if the link on a
>> high volume port goes down, the MAC gets removed from the forwarding table,
>> and then all of that traffic gets flooded to all other ports until BGP
>> times out.  This seems to be especially problematic when it hits the 1G
>> ports.
>>
>> My vision of a future upgrade would be something along the lines of a
>> 5200, or equiv from another manufacturer that has all of the other switches
>> uplinked to it.  Then we would have separate forwarding tables, a place to
>> connect remote switches, as well as something that has some 40G, and 100G
>> capabilities.  All of the uplinks would then be easy to monitor/graph
>> without excessive load on the switch.  Copper SFP+/QSFP+ cables can be used
>> between switches and they are affordable/easy to come by.
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: MICE Discuss [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>> Doug McIntyre
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 3:15 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [MICE-DISCUSS] EX4200 (1G Switch) Packet Loss -> 10G
>> Participants
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 02:23:00PM -0500, Jeremy Lumby wrote:
>> > That would make sense, then we are just down to how traffic can leave
>> the 4200 without going across a vcp
>>
>> Most likely we'd have to kick off (umm. move) the three members that
>> are fiber 1G connections in the expansion slot on the 4200, get a 10G
>> card, optics for both sides, etc.  Then decide if we are going to run
>> virtual chassis protocol, or just layer-2 uplink into the two other
>> switches.
>>
>> Or we move the 19 active 1G copper members + 3 1G fiber members off the
>> 4200
>> altogether and eat up ports on the 4550 with 19 copper SFPs. Then we
>> wouldn't
>> have to do "Mixed-mode Virtual-Chassis" then either.
>>
>> > Although- it looks like so far all the paths with loss seem to have
>> "vcp-1" in them?
>>
>> As I've stated multiple times, I think since VCP is active/passive,
>> there is only one active ring around the the VC through VCP-1 now,
>> and I would expect to see vcp-1 in all paths through the EX4200.
>>
>> We can swap active and passive with the command I posted previously.
>> That way we can troubleshoot if there is a port/cable issue, or if it is
>> an issue with the device itself.
>>
>> Or it could be a defect in this coderev (although I doubt it).
>>
>>
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