-----Original Message----- From: Paul Wall [mailto:pauldotwall@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 11:25 AM To: Drew Weaver Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Replacement for Avaya CNA/RouteScience
Going off this and previous posts, you'd well-served to follow the advice you sarcastically dispense, and hire an engineer.
Opex and capex (spread over a ~2 year product lifetime) costs for the above solutions in a small (several gigabits, several transit providers) environment are right up there with the salary of a junior to mid-level networking professional in most markets. By hiring a live human, you get not only somebody who can tweak localpref, but also a critical thinker who can aid in troubleshooting outages and help you plan for growth.
Paul
I'd like to hire that engineer, please. Can you send me his resume? Here's the job description: - Required to works 24x7x365. - Must monitor all network egress points to examine latency, retransmissions, packet loss, link utilization, and link cost. - Required to "tweak localpref" on an average of 5000 prefixes per day, based upon a combination of the above criteria. - Required to write up a daily, weekly, and monthly report to be sent to all managers on said schedule. - Must not require health or dental care. These devices are not a replacement for an actual engineer. They are a supplement to the network to assist the engineer in doing what he should be doing - engineering and planning as opposed to resolving some other network's packet loss/blackhole/peering dispute/latency problem. -evt