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

Christian Nielsen (cnielsen@vii.com)
Tue, 8 Oct 1996 10:18:24 -0600 (MDT)

On Mon, 7 Oct 1996 patrick@value.net wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Dave Andersen wrote:
> >
> > And yet, despite the fact that both CPU and RAM are cheap, ever tried to
> > load a 25xx with two T1s and some SIMPLE (read: IP spoofing) filters on
> > the interfaces?
>
> Uh, yes, doing it right now, no sweat.

I bet your not running BGP. Did you know that the Crisco 25xx series
router can only route a max of 6megs at one time? Plus, you could put two full
routing tables on a 25xx router, been there done that but if one dies, so does
your router... It does route packets again, much later...

> However to be fair, Cisco doesn't simply throw power at a problem. They
> also throw features. Sometime cool features, which take up 10 or 15
> manuals, and features that their tech support department know little
> about(as I have found out the hard way.)

Cisco has the same problem as livingston, Growth. You might have to
move up the latter to get someone who knows more.

> Free advice:
>
> Livingston, please *NEVER* go to CD-ROM docs as a primary method of
> documentation. It really, really sucks.....

I just order all the manuals.. Free with SmartNet. What is the status
of livingston and manuals??

Christian