New router: SFP+ module unsupported

The SFP+ modules we got were supposed to be Dell compliant - this was not the case, and the module is not working. We are trying to get a new module tomorrow, hopefully we can find a suitable module from local vendors.

5th Sept 2013
Espoo new router arrived

New router arrived today, we will be testing it shortly, and hopefully taking it into production by tomorrow afternoon.

5th Sept 2013
Espoo router plan, other updates

We are ordering a hardware router, a nice Dell PowerConnect L3 unit. It should arrive within 2 weeks. In the meantime, we will still try to solve the software router, but not keeping our hopes up for the moment.   A LOT of disks arrived, which means after new switches has been configured we can roll out a lot of new nodes - however, we will ... Read More »

2nd Sept 2013
router maintenance

Router maintenance was completed and some speed increase was achieved. Unfortunately it was achieved in a unexpected way and we still consider performance suboptimal.

We will be looking into it again, and potentially changing to hardware router afterall.

1st Sept 2013