There are certainly reasons to hate Cisco, but their hardware is generally very reliable, and used Cisco becomes much more affordable at 2 points in its life cycle – when they get swapped out for the next generation, and when EOS/EOL gets announced. Also the used equipment has often spent its entire life in a datacenter on an equipment lease. I am about to install my first 7301 as a BGP router, I think these may lead a tougher life since some were probably installed at customer prem by carriers for metro Ethernet service.
One place I won’t go is their security (ASA) product line. Seems well built with good performance numbers, but apparently it’s a bitch to configure them, or else my customers hire incompetent Cisco experts. Every time they mess with the VPN config it breaks something, they blame the ISP, and it’s never the ISP’s fault. From: Mike Hammett Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2015 10:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cisco pissing me off I would love to blow up every piece of Cisco everything. Cisco has no place in any of these networks. However, it's not my switch. ;-) ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Sean Heskett" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2015 5:49:58 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cisco pissing me off Why on earth would you use a Cisco anything when they hate WISPs We have completely removed all Cisco from our network 2 cents -Sean On Saturday, June 13, 2015, Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote: This should be a trivial Cisco switch question. Apparently I don't use these turds enough to remember everything. show config says: interface FastEthernet0/3 switchport access vlan 777 switchport mode access speed 100 duplex full no cdp enable ! However, when trying to convert it to a tagged port with the following commands, it doesn't change. config terminal int Fa0/3 switchport mode trunk switchport trunk allowed vlan 777 No errors, just no change. I even tried just setting the description. Same result. I also tried removing the vlan via: interface FastEthernet 0/3 no switchport mode access no switchport access vlan 777 ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com
