[87895] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is my router owned? How would I know?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph S D Yao)
Fri Jan 13 17:09:15 2006
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:05:36 -0500
From: Joseph S D Yao <jsdy@center.osis.gov>
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Mail-Followup-To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>,
NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0601130325310.20032@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:29:15AM +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
...
> Some vendors have asked and received this sort of thing, does huwei (which
> I butchered the spelling of) want one? (or need one?) how about netgear
> and their lovely NTP issue? or checkpoint or ... there are quite a few
> vendors out there, some even attend NANOG. If they listened to their
> customers I suspect they'd hear: "I want a secure platform!" quite loudly.
Only from the engineers. From the money people (Layer 8), they may be
hearing: "I want an inexpensive platform, and make it as easy to manage
as MS Windows, so I don't have to hire all these expensive network
engineers, eh?"
The trick may be to get the Layer 9 people to understand that this is a
losing proposition.
--
Joe Yao
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
This message is not an official statement of OSIS Center policies.
