Have the networks changed that much? Some time ago we used to push L2 from mainframes on T/R or SDLC (I hated SDLC always had to guess the settings) over WAN with DLSW+. Now PWs and VPLS is the buzz.
Yeah the good old 4500 was actually the first router I have played with, that was in Cisco networking academy at secondary school some 14 years ago. adam -----Original Message----- From: cisco-nsp [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gert Doering Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 1:34 PM To: Mark Tinka Cc: Peter Lothberg; [email protected]; Mikael Abrahamsson Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Upgrading to 40G Hi, On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 12:49:26PM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote: > While I can appreciate this, history has always proven that users will > find a use for something for which it wasn't initially intended - > y'know, like using a Cisco 2901 as a core router :-). <old age day> 2503 made a good core router, back in the day... (we had two! A 2503 and a 4500, with a E1 between them...) This newfangled 2900 stuff, nobody needs that much RAM in a router! </old age day> gert -- USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! //www.muc.de/~gert/ Gert Doering - Munich, Germany [email protected] fax: +49-89-35655025 [email protected] _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
