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From: Bjørn Mork (no email)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2006 - 09:59:39 EDT
"Kim Onnel" <> writes:
> I have this old foundry switch in the warehouse, I have no experience in
> Foundry, i wonder if this switch can be upgraded to a newer OS that will
> support advanced features or shall i consider it dead,
What advanced features? It's a L4 switch with fixed ports. There's
really not much to add or remove.
> I want to mainly use it for one customer that wants caching, its L4 i guess
> and i have an old NetApp caching server that will save the customer 10MBs i
> guess.
It should be able to do this without any upgrades at all. But I guess
you'd want a service contract on it anyway...
> telnet at foundry-switch#sh ver
> SW: Version 07.3.04T12 Copyright (c) 1996-1999 Foundry Networks, Inc.
> Compiled on Mar 07 2002 at 11:46:40 labeled as SLB07304
> HW: ServerIron Switch, serial number 10ac46
> 400 MHz Power PC processor 740 (revision 8) with 32756K bytes of DRAM
> 16 100BaseT interfaces with Level 1 Transceiver LXT975
> 2 GIGA Fiber uplink interfaces, SX
As it says, this is a 16-port ServerIron XL with a 2-port SX
gig-module. It runs a pretty early version of the layer 3 enabled
code for SIs. Should be OK, I guess.
Documentation can be found at
http://www.foundrynet.com/services/documentation/index.html#SI
and software on
http://www.foundrynet.com/services/support/index.html
(software download requires a service contract)
Bjørn
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