[HECnet] Cisco Catalyst family members

On 7 Aug 2013, at 19:50, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: On 08/07/2013 07:47 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: Here's a stretch, a shop in California named WeirdStuff is selling a Cisco Catalyst 2948G for 35 dollars. Obviously that prices does not include S&H costs. They go onto discuss what else the thing has, such as - Layer 3 Switch - 48 Ports 10/100 - 2 GBIC Ports for Gigabit uplink. I believe that is a good description. But I'm no judge of prices. Someone here made the mistake of throwing out a batch of Cisco gear items and I rescued them before the local vulture union could destroy them. New I believe they are worth more then some of the cars people drive here. One was a Catalyst 2900, and the other was a Catalyst 2960G, (with the optical delivery items for fiber-optics), and still another was a 2500, (which is a classic amongst that family I believe.), and then a 3600, the other happened to be a 2550 series unit. How hard is it to identify them and confirm what I rescued? Quite easy. 2500s are ancient, but still very useful. 2900s, not so much. 3600s still go for more serious money; if they threw them in the trash, they're idiots. 2550s also fetch some money. Just check the fans in the 2500s. Remember how MINE died! I can help you go through their hardware configurations and such, crack passwords for access, etc etc when the time comes. I can too, but I m not too familiar with Layer 3 switches. I d love one to play with though. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA