I get what you mean, I only use L3 top-of-rack data center switches, what a bunch of amateur peasants !
Comment on emergency remote access
Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I buy better gear that doesn’t regularly require a reboot
My mikrotik has not NEEDED a reboot ever, except when I run upgrades. Everything is set up to auto recover when disconnects happen, and power up properly if there’s an extended power failure that causes UPS shutdowns.
I will never understand why people think rebooting their router regularly is a normal thing. That just means your gear or setup is crap.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
That’s called unnecessary overkill and you’ll introduce failures from excess complexity.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Actually they are a reduction in complexity, yes I am not using most of the features, they run in L2, but their backbone runs off a x86 single board computer and they run a mostly hardware agnostic OS (Sonic).
This is what I mean by a reduction in complexity, it’s basically running debian os with pcie switchdev interfaces on a PC. It’s familiar and stable, not locked in to proprietary hardware, they’re cheap and plentiful
SteveTech@programming.dev 6 months ago
My Mikrotik routers and switches also reboot in seconds (even for upgrades), which I’ve never seen consumer gear do!
Even my Ubiquiti switches seem to take a minute or so to start forwarding traffic after a reboot; whilst my Mikrotik switches reboot faster than any of my unmanaged switches start up.
eclipse@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Cisco, HP, and many other “Enterprise” switches will take a minute or two to start forwarding frames after boot.
Doesn’t really excuse Ubiquiti but that’s what they’re trying for.