> > IMHO no switch or router should have management access enabled on an > > interface which can be configured to pass non-management traffic. > > Some customers actually dropped Cisco offering and went with the > competition, when they've learnt, that the management traffic is for > MANAGEMENT only. It can't pass the user traffic. > > I saw customer dropping our 4900M after learning the FE0 management > can't be used to route it's default route to the internet for the > rest of multi-10GE customers. "True story" as they say. No amount > of education at this point can make him change his mind.
It may be interesting to compare with Juniper which has had an Ethernet port from day 1 for management traffic only - and still does today for the M/MX/T series. They seem to have survived. And yes, I'm firmly in the camp of wanting this type of functionality. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/