Financially that's one way of looking at it but the extra effort to deal with more frequent outages and never able to truly relax on vacation isn't worth it. Then the argument was made " if they are 4x cheaper just buy more and keep extras on the shelf". They were 3-4x cheaper compared to HP but some of them failed after 1 year and the warranty from said vendor is only for one year. Sure, there are much cheaper switches out there and out of necessity I have acquired switches from other vendors. That kind of commitment makes it fairly easy to justify spending the extra few bucks on them. It's still interesting to me they stand behind their product that much that it can run as long as you need that piece of technology to run. The last one I had an issue with, they replaced many years after purchase. We still deploy Aruba and rarely have issues. It was an HP 2810-24G switch that bit the dust.
I don't really want this particular model back again but it'll function as a spare at least in case there are more devices that don't like 2020 and want "early" retirement.
The switch in question has one of those life-time warranties so after 10 years of service I still get to RMA it for a new one. Upon looking closer at the logs, the issue started happening at 11:59 PM on Dec 31.Ĭoincidence or did this switch actually fail due to a "Y2K" issue that crops up in 2020 and only affects LACP links? The actual Y2K back in the day caused me zero issues and now I'm finally suffering a failure? Figures. Nothing like heading to the office at 9 PM to start half a work day. Reboot of the switch didn't make a difference.Īfter a couple of days like this hoping it would limp along because I'm on vacation after all, I decide I need to take care of it before it ruins the rest of my vacation. Until the 2nd port started having problems in some of the pairs and now we have outages, spanning tree recalculations and all that fun network-outage-inducing stuff. Each pair had luckily only one port act up so it wasn't dire at first. This 24-port switch had 4 LACP pairs running to other switches. There is no corresponding log entry to match this on-off event that occurs every few seconds. Observing the port's LED you notice it briefly lights up then goes off again. Symptoms: one port in each LACP group stopped working and finally escalated to actual outages noticed by human beings. A switch in the NOC I manage decided to give up after a decade of steadfast service. This happens of course while I am still on vacation.
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