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Linux gets Goooed, I got Tomato and They fixed our EX4200

Those things happened closely at the same time and they are all for good ! First thanks to some good people Linux gets a native game World of Goo. BIG Thanks to two ex - EA employees who BTW. had spent their entire savings to develop the game. I only wish those guys will get their savings back, it might be hard since 90% of Windows users who play that game have STOLEN IT!!! So far i only heard about World of Goo but didint have time to try it personally, but now when a native linux port is available i will give a shot for sure!!!

Second i got rid of DD-WRT, and become a happy Tomato user. One evening i decided to give it a try and i will never come back, and I got good reasons for it. First with Tomato my net is 40 % faster, second QoS really works, third i found that, do some research and its actually true. DD-WRT uses some crippled drivers both for wireless NIC and Ethernet ports. Since i got Tomato my ping to my provider lowered with 0,4 ms !!! My router is always accessible through SSH and WEB, so far it never froze! (dd-wrt used to freeze 2-3 times a week!!!).

And the last one from good things is that they (JTAC), finally admitted and i hope fixed our problem. In November we got 2 Junipers EX4200, and since then we understood that we have just become a part of Juniper beta testers team and that we better get familiar with JTAC and how to manage a support case there. Our problem was that sometimes somehow and somewhere (totaly random times and places), the switch would refuse to learn certain MACs or it would not forward traffic between them. The last secure meeting (one of 1000 we had in the past 2 moths) revealed a problem - The Engineer who was looking at our switch discovered that PFE had two modes of MAC learning enabled - Packet Transfer and Message Mode. They were working concurrently in the ASIC and conflicting each other. After disabling the 1st one the situation seems to be stabilized, and i hope that was causing our troubles. The annoying this is that it took us more than 2 months to dig through their bureaucracy in order to reach an engineer...