[HECnet] Cisco Catalyst family members

On May 25, 2016, at 03:48, Gregg C Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote: Hello! I have now confirmed that the Cat2960G series is the fellow who use F/O bundles as its preferred means managing a link to it. Does anyone have an idea as to the style of connecting F/O styles? Gregg on that. Sent from my iPod > On Aug 7, 2013, at 7:50 PM, 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. > > I can help you go through their hardware configurations and such, crack passwords for access, etc etc when the time comes. > > -Dave > > -- > Dave McGuire, AK4HZ > New Kensington, PA