On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 7:27 PM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
That must be my mistake then, because I thought the exercise was building it in a way that it stays built for the maximum practical number of years. When it has to be touched again (or tweaked if it
So when you upgrade a device, you always buy the suitable device which has the highest capabilities? You put in a top-of-rack switch with 10GbE for servers with no 10GbE ports and no plans of needing 10GbE connectivity to the next round of servers? You buy a modular router for branch offices that have only a few workstations and no predictable need for upgraded connectivity? This is a good way to waste money, and a bad way to ensure that you will have the *features* you may want in the future. New features will not be back-ported to your box of choice, but you will have sunk unnecessary budget resources into that box, making it harder to justify upgrades. -- Jeff S Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz> Sr Network Operator / Innovative Network Concepts