Thus spake Paul Farber
My gripe is that they are still asking $4K for NETSERVER based gear.
Personally...I wouldn't pay a dime for NETServer gear at this point...*shrug*
MLPPP or even Multi chassis MLPPP is still kinda new to the Total Control cards.
Actually...the TC gear has done MP for quite some time now. MPIP has been solid on the Arcs for quite some time now as well. MP on the NETServers worked fine...MPIP, however, *never* worked on the NETServers.
ISDN connections are even worse than .v90 connections.... a large percentage of ISDN calls will somehow lose routing when MLPPP to a TC.
Hrmm...I've never had any trouble with this on Arcs.
3Com dropped the dial up market about 1 year ago.... look at the new 'features' they've been incorporating in TC, VoIP, Cellular, etc.
Yeah...I don't have any great desire for VoIP and Cellular capabilities...but can see where some would.
When the damned things can reliably take a phone call
Agreed...though this is a DSP thing...yes, the DSP code still needs to be made more reliable...5% connect failure seems to be the going rate...that's high...though some of the blame is with crap client side modems.
and route the packets using something other than RIP (yeah, OSPF is in their but from what I read it's not the most reliable beast), THEN add bells and whistles.
true, true. OSPF needs to have its feature set filled out more. Other routing protocols should be added. BGP would be one that I'd like to see actually...though that would be a lower priority. I definitely agree with you here...get the basic functionality down and *SOLID* before moving development assets elsewhere.
I've been wanting a pure dial up RAS for a while... nothing as complex as TC for handeling mass marketed dial up access.... looks like Patton listened.
Yeah...the problem there, being...there's really not much market anymore for a *pure* dial up RAS. Besides...a RAS really is a router...and to build a good RAS, you're really building a good router with extra features. (a RAS is a router, but a router isn't necessarily a RAS) Agreed, you can still make a good router/RAS that's not as complex/complicated as the TC...but then again...the TC is a very flexible and powerful RAS...I can see the need for something simpler in places.
And there is NO WAY a NETSERVER based chassis is worth $4K. Christ, they were only $10K NEW.
Considering that NETServers are inherently broken in several ways, I tend to be of the opinion that anyone selling one for anything other very limited solutions is pretty much committing fraud. But then...that's just my $.02. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.