[5508] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother))
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Mon Oct 21 18:36:09 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: alex@relcom.eu.net
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:23:08 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, paul@vix.com
In-Reply-To: <AEtYrQo4WA@virgin.relcom.EU.net> from "alex@relcom.eu.net" at Oct 21, 96 03:04:23 pm
> This is the advantages of PC. Hope you know disadvantages too -:)
>
> > To the argument that Cisco IOS is inherently easier or harder to configure
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -:)
> This is a joke... there is nothing more complex and orderless than
> IOS's config -:)
This is my last comment on IOS vs. Gated, but:
Some things are super-elegant and thus easy to predict and use.
Unix and its kernel and utilities is. NT/Windows/Mac from the
programming side are not.
Bay is not. Proteon is not. Gated (for me, so far) is not.
Microrouters are not. Morningstars are/(?were?). Livingstons
are not.
Now, I can program all of the above from memory. But I actually
do find IOS smoother and easier to use and adopt new features in.
I actually took to IOS fairly quickly, I believe. I know I took
to it much faster than I did to gated, because I spent 20 hours
and couldn't get gated working due to a total lack of *good*
docs. 6-9 months ago the most common question on the gated lists
was "can anyone post SOME working configuration"?
> Aleksei Roudnev, Network Operations Center, Relcom, Moscow
I can only speak for myself, of course.
Avi
