Drew Weaver wrote:
> What are some persistent things about Cisco products that no matter
> how high into the product line you travel you cannot get away from? I
* Slow bootup - in some cases, prohibitively so
* Relatively slow CPUs e.g. 600MHz on 6500 - maybe not universal, but
certainly widespread in the Cisco product line
* Extremely long waits for "wr mem" on big configs
* Lack of templated config a-la JunOS (see above)
* Very very very silly defaults e.g. proxy ARP on
...just off the top of my head.
> was sitting around the other day thinking about how odd it is that in
> 2008 the BGP scanner still causes the CPU utilization to jump
> ridiculously high (on pretty much all routers I've seen..from 7200 to
> 128xx), and all of the various limitations of the route table sizes
> in various Cisco products. I realize these issues are either harmless
> or explainable ("just the way it is") I just think it is a
> strange/interesting thing to note that years later the same issues
> are still present in technology no matter how far up you go in the
> line.
>
> Not sure what prompt these things in my head :D
>
> -Drew
>
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