[mythtv-users] myth on separate subnet

Mark fairlane at springcom.com
Thu Jan 14 23:22:58 UTC 2010


Greg Oliver wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Mark <fairlane at springcom.com> wrote:
>   
>> Greg Oliver wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Frank Merrill <fmerrill1 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Mark <fairlane at springcom.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> It's not quite that extreme.  :)
>>>>> the WS-G6483 module I need for the switch is $25.  The switch cost me
>>>>> $60.
>>>>> I'm not hurting too bad... :)
>>>>>
>>>>> I went with the used Cisco because I dislike downtime.  And long
>>>>> distance
>>>>> troubleshooting.   A LOT.  Every other switch i've owned needed
>>>>> rebooting
>>>>> occasionally.  This cisco doesn't.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Yes, reliability is a factor if you aren't close by.
>>>> This made me go and pull the uptime of one of the many 6500's in one
>>>> of the networks I support.
>>>> (I am across the country from this one and the other 7 at that
>>>> particular location)
>>>>
>>>> "Uptime is 2344 days, 8 hours, 13 minutes"
>>>>
>>>> Yes, that is approaching 7 years uptime without even a reload.
>>>>
>>>> But, even that is a bit much to expect in a home network. I just
>>>> thought it was cool to show how stable they can be.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Yes, cisco gear is pretty much fault-tolerant...  Not too many ppl
>>> have it in their homes though :-)
>>>
>>>       
>> Yep, you should have seen the IT manager when I asked for some help with my
>> 2948G switch programming.
>> Catching flies he was.  He asked why I didn't just put in a wireless router
>> like normal people.  Then I started
>> listing off everything on my network, his eyes glazed over and he walked
>> away...  :)  That was fun.
>>
>>     
>
> The 2948 was Cisco's first entry into "real" switching.  It was in
> their first line of wire-speed products.  BTW:  It was a router..
> Hence the difficult programming as it was sold as a switch too...  I
> still have one in use here at the house (works well)..
>   
Hmm.  Didn't know that.  Never saw that in the docs.  Not a lot of info 
out there on it really. 



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