On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Blaine Christian wrote:
Looks like vendor J is going to benefit from the issues laid out for Vendor C.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/110405-juniper-cisco-hacker.html Cisco, Juniper, or vendor "X". We all benefit by having "genetic
On Nov 7, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Eric Germann wrote: diversity" in our routing/switching systems. I have been bit hard, as many of us on this thread have been bit, by bugs in vendor software/hardware. Support your IETF! Don't use proprietary protocols and insist on interoperability. If you have the wherewithal install at least two different vendors for your critical services. Then make them play nice together!
How do the operators/engineers explain to 'management', or whomever asks, the 'training issues' that always crop up when more than one vendor are proposed? Has anyone had good luck with this arguement? (my answer is sort of along the lines of: "Its just a router, no matter the vendor and they all have command-line help" but that's not always recieved well :) ) Just curious as I'm sure there are folks stuck in an all vendor X shop who look over the electronic fence and see vendor Y with 'so much better' or 'so much faster' or 'so much more blinkly lighty'... and try to have their management agree to purchasing new devices :)