Stan, Foxboro and Enterasys are working together to make some of the Enterasys switches work the way the MESH needs them to. They aren't even qualifying all Enterasys switches, (only a small subset). I have gathered that sub-second failover over of redundant modules and paths is one of the key issues. Their will be very specific firmware and settings in the switches and Foxboro has already warned us that there will be no guarantees of functionality unless you use their version of firmware and the settings they determine. In order for Cisco switches to work on the MESH, Foxboro will also have to qualify the specific Cisco switches you intend to use. When Foxboro first advertised the MESH they hyped the use of COTS, (Commercial Off The Shelf), switches but now that has changed to only the specific, (COTS), switches they qualify;) Duc told me that they asked users at the Houston UG meeting to submit switches they wanted to see qualified so you should probably do that if you want to use Cisco switches. We are making plans to use the Enterasys switches they are qualifying because I've seen folks bitten too many times in the past when they try to out-guess Foxboro's intentions. When they get down to requiring specific NIC's with specific firmware in order to communicate with their equipment, you should know that the switches will be highly customized also. In Foxboro's defense, they are trying to make things backward compatible on a system that was designed in the mid 1980's while utilizing the latest communication technology and that would be a tall order in anyone's book. Cheers, Tom VandeWater stan wrote: > We are close to buying our second set of V7 hardware. On the first set we > let Foxboro talk us into Interesys switches. The corporate standard, however > is Cisco, and within our organization we certainly have more expertise in > supporting these. > > I'd like to hear from other users as to which direction they are going, or > are planing on going on this. > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave