Re: Which "PoP in a box" to use????? (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Tue, 8 Oct 1996 01:44:14 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time patrick@value.net shaped the electrons to say...
>> We add a feature to ComOS and compile - the product line has it (HW
>> permitting of course, WAN support on a PM-2 is silly).
>Then please, why was it offered? Why is it that there are a ton of people

Please reread what I said. I said 'PM-2' not 'PM-2R' nor 'PM-2eR'

>emailing me when I say don't use the WAN port on a 2eR with more than 3
>2eR's on the LAN, asking me why that is? Why don't people know?

Because resellers don't always tell people such things. I don't like it,
you don't like it. We have said it quite a bit.

>I am not a Cisco expert by any stretch of the imagination. However, IOS
>seems fairly standardized to me.

We have several ex-Cisco people here who don't agree.

Over time it is like a melting pot. But notice Cisco has the tendency a
lot of huge companies have "Hmm... we should have a box that does X. Find
someone who does that and buy them." Then it takes a while for that
products code to mutate into a semi-standardized IOS. By which time they
have purchased someone else. And it is never really the same code. Which
is why you sometimes get bugs with a feature in some boxes and not others -
same feature, different code to do it. Looking at the product line the
HW is so varied it would be nigh-impossible to use the same code base.

-MZ

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