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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 February 2003 9:25 pm, David Johnson wrote: > I've developed a nasty allergy to Cisco routers.... why learn a language > just to configure a router when you can get a 3com one with a nice, easy > web interface...? thats not what virtually any network engineer worth his [whatever] would say.. i regulalry get sent all sorts of hardware from companies trying to sell us things on trial both high end and low, and nothign yet has impressed me any where near enough to make me consider moving from cisco kit, except maybe a linux box (and in some cases, linux excells over cisco). > We've got a Cisco ISDN router which I spent ages trying to configure > (partially using the Windows only config software). that would be the problem then. It's kind of like moving from windows to linux, and complainign you don't have the shiny front end to everyhting. I'd dispise any "managed" switch that has a web front end, for exactly the same reason windows having pointy cliky has - you have *no* control over anyhting - - why bother with managed in the first place? ;) anyone that has used an intel "high end" switch will know excaclty what i mean.. > It's fine once you > know how to do it, but it all just seems a little OTT... At the very > least, you'd expect configuring the basic settings to be easy. Try configuring a lucent AS, then you see hard ;) 90% of the time the CPE is managed by the provider, hence it's not been made easy for you. cisco don't want the low end of the market, and probably never will. would you pay 1000 quid per ethernet port on a half decent router, or 4000 for a gigabit port? ;) the soho stuff is exactly the same, it's meant for providers to send preconfigured to the customer, so they never have to touch it. ~ Theo - -- Theo Zourzouvillys <theo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <http://theo.me.uk/> - --------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML \ / email and proprietary format X attachments. / \ - --------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+WrSi448CrwpTn6YRAhcKAJsEAfFiZ0jDb7TKL/eeg6/SUfnZZgCfRptS hNmdoKNA7sSWQDUaMIr92i0= =KMMv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.