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Re: Gigabit Linux Routers

  • From: Michael 'Moose' Dinn
  • Date: Thu Dec 18 10:11:46 2008 
>  Not to defend 3Com or anything, but all of their enterprise stuff (for quite 
>  a few years now) has an extremely similar CLI to IOS.  Came out very shortly 
>  after they got involved with Huawei.
>  If you're already familiar with 3com enterprise gear, check out the 4200G 
>  series for cheap L2 gig switching.


3Com's CLI is just different enough from Cisco's so they won't get sued.

show interface = display interface

write mem = save

no ip address = undo ip address etc.

All in all we've been fairly happy with the higher end gear (5500EI, 5500GEI).