[16664] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re (2): Core router bakeoff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Germann)
Fri May 8 11:54:22 1998
Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 11:42:40 -0400
To: jkucic@kpmg.com
From: Eric Germann <ekgermann@CCTEC.COM>
Cc: Eric Germann <ekgermann@CCTEC.COM>, perry@piermont.com,
agirsch@OASysGroup.com (Arnaud Girsch), nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <0002E82C.CE21037@kpmg.com>
At 10:10 PM 5/7/98 -0400, jkucic@kpmg.com wrote:
>Eric Germann <ekgermann@cctec.com>,Internet writes:
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>Hey, you haven't spoken with your local Cabletron rep lately; Cabletron is
>pushing channel relationships again.
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The abuser says "I won't do it again, I swear". Yeah right.
>Now that I ragged on em, they do have solid stuff. I have one client who
>has had their MMAC hubs up and running for about 8 years with narry a
>hiccup. And these are in rotten basements.
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>You are right but is it Year 2000 compliant?
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Do we really care if an unmanaged hub is Y2K compliant? As long as it
forwards packets....
BTW, saw a great ad the other day from Nortel on y2k compliance on T1
concentrators. Anyone have any idea why it matters in a mux, if it isn't
managed?
Eric
>Thanks,
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>Joe Kucic
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