[rescue] Oh, It gets better! (Was : Well, isn't that special. )

[rescue at sunhelp.org]

Well, there's Nortel (#2 in market) and Motorola (#3 in market). I don't
know if Ascend is still kicking.

I have always like Motorola, especially if doing voice over frame relay. I
find Nortel (Bay/Wellfleet) difficult to deal with from the command-line,
but once programmed enough to see an ethernet port their gui works.

I like Cisco, but only for infrastructure stuff. Cisco (or any other router
manufacturer) wouldn't be my first choice for a network card. What they are
really saying here is "we shouldn't have entered that business and now want
out of it". Most big companies will do this to a dead product line. Cisco
offers excellent support for their primary product lines.

James Fogg, Network Engineer
Vicinity Corporation - New Hampshire
(603) 442-1751

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: George Adkins [mailto:george at webbastard.org]
~ Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 1:53 PM
~ To: rescue at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: [rescue] Oh, It gets better! (Was : Well, isn't that 
~ special.)
~ 
~ 
~ > Recently aquired two cisco wa-C301T S-Bus FDDI interfaces.
~ >
~ > Cisco, however, in their infinitessimal wisdom, wants me to 
~ buy a service
~ > contract on two 10 year old NIC's before they will *Allow* 
~ me to download
~ > the Solaris drivers.
~ >
~ I talk to the Service Contract 'People', and I find out that 
~ they won't sell 
~ me a service contract for the parts, since they are not 
~ installed in Cisco 
~ Equipment... 
~ 
~ you can't have the driver without a service contract...
~ you can't have a service contract, even if you wanted to pay for it...
~ you can't have the driver (Besides, we're going to EOL it in 
~ Jan of 2003!)
~ 
~ FSCKing Cisco...  and to think I was going to buy Cisco 
~ routers to connect 
~ the California and Florida remote offices when their 
~ connectivity comes up 
~ online.
~ 
~ Who else makes decent routers?
~ 
~ George
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