Re: Netgear?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
sean weintz  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:I will likely be buying either a GSM7324 or the newly announced gsm7312 

Some careful reading of the GSM7324 reference manual indicates to me
that the GSM7324 and GSM7312 are implimentated using lvl7.com's
FASTPATH system, possibly based most closely on the FASTPATH 2240.

This ties in with the netgear download for the gsm7312, which is a tar
bundle of unexplained directories that is collectively named
lvl7oss.tar.gz .

Internal evidence suggests the 7300 series might be be using boards or
chips from Marvell/Galileo.

Brief LVL7 / FASTPATH review: http://www.analogzone.com/netp0805a.htm


Oh, look at that, a news release saying explicitly that the GSM7324 is
lvl7:

http://www.commsdesign.com/story/OEG20030819S0018
"The GSM7324 is a 24-port Ethernet switching device developed around
Broadcom's StrataXGS 5690 switching device."
Looks like I was wrong, they started with the FASTPATH 2340, not the 2240.

More information on the StratagXGS with a comparision to Marvell EX at
http://www.analogzone.com/netp0513a.htm
I'm left unsure about whether Netgear went Strata or Marvell.


One interesting thing about this is it suggests that the GSM73xx's
poorly documented Link Aggregation (LAG) should work with other vendors as
a number of other vendors are using the same software.
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