"Kim Onnel" <karim.adel@gmail.com> 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@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