Hi, > Agreed - but there are also the political issues to consider - server > (hosting team) vs. appliance (network team).
I work in a network team. and we run servers - DNS, DHCP, NTP, RADIUS, SYSLOG, SNMP - basically all the network related things and bits that ensure a client can use the network. from then on its all upper layers and we dont go above layer 4 ;-) > It is easy for *nix admins to support a free Linux environment, but > unfortunately, some companies are moving away from *nix based operating > systems - and as such would prefer an appliance. ..which are usually Linux boxes ;-) > It is cheaper to buy 3 appliances than to hire 2 *nix admins to look after > your 3 time servers for you. ...and who runs the appliances? who debugs the appliances when they dont do what they are expected to do? you might have a little more argument with something more complex like DNS/DHCP when you might buy into some IPAM solution....but NTP? alan _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
