[134962] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Varriale)
Thu Jan 13 10:05:33 2011
From: "Tony Varriale" <tvarriale@comcast.net>
To: "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:04:38 -0600
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Brandon Kim" <brandon.kim@brandontek.com>
>To: <cra@wpi.edu>; "nanog group" <nanog@nanog.org>
>Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 8:46 AM
>Subject: RE: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?
>
>
>For ISL, I know they are trying to phase that out. For the exams, they are
>based on dot1q.....
>
>Even if I had all cisco equipment, I'd try to go with standards because you
>never know down the road where you may
>need to use another vendor.
>
>I wouldn't use EIGRP if given a choice, I'd go with OSPF or RIPv2.
The main problem with this is RIP sucks and there aren't a lot of people out
there that are really good with OSPF. For every one legit design and
implementation of OSPF, I've seen 50 with every thing in 0 and config
statements everywhere.
For companies that don't have real dedicated networking people, EIGRP is
much more easy to admin and troubleshoot.
tv
