[K12OSN] switch advice: Netgear or 3com

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 12:17, norbert wrote:
> The original reason that I had bought the netgear product was that the
> literature & package both indicated that it worked with linux.
> Needless to say I was extremely "!@#$%#@@###" when I learned that
> linux support came at a price, since linux issues had to be escaladed
> to their 2nd tier support & that level of support was not free!
> I never got to considering a third party driver or application after
> that response.

Does any vendor teach you how to do configuration without some kind of
support contract?  I'm usually happy to see 'works with Linux' on the
box and don't expect it to mean more than that.

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  Les Mikesell
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