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In article <ccji5g$f0h$>,
says...
[snip]
> What Hansang does not mention is the testing effort required to
> get a new IOS release approved for deployment. It makes the actual
> deployment, even across thousands of routers, pale by comparison.

And that's the reason why we are *always* behind SEVERAL revisions.

> As a side note, back when I was there, their standard design approach
> did not provide working redundancy when going through firewalls and
> required token rings and RSRB to get SNA redundancy. Guess which
> client provided the inspiration for the firewall and DLSw chapters
> in my book

That was quite funny. I had the distinct pleasure of migrating this
data center and the client said "we had this smart guy who setup a
special FW/DSLw+ config...." I was thinking "yeah sure, smart guy!"

"Why don't you tell me the service request number so I can look it
up..."

So I grab the design package and see "by Vicent Jones!" Small world
indeed!

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hsb

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Hansang Bae wrote:
> In article <ccji5g$f0h$>,
> says...
> [snip]
>
>>What Hansang does not mention is the testing effort required to
>>get a new IOS release approved for deployment. It makes the actual
>>deployment, even across thousands of routers, pale by comparison.
>
>
> And that's the reason why we are *always* behind SEVERAL revisions.
>
>
>>As a side note, back when I was there, their standard design approach
>>did not provide working redundancy when going through firewalls and
>>required token rings and RSRB to get SNA redundancy. Guess which
>>client provided the inspiration for the firewall and DLSw chapters
>>in my book
>
>
> That was quite funny. I had the distinct pleasure of migrating this
> data center and the client said "we had this smart guy who setup a
> special FW/DSLw+ config...." I was thinking "yeah sure, smart guy!"
>
> "Why don't you tell me the service request number so I can look it
> up..."
>
> So I grab the design package and see "by Vicent Jones!" Small world
> indeed!
>

Set up a Gentoo Linux system and run JFFNMS, (Just For Fun Network
Management System) it's really cool, supports versioning of config
files and will let you automate configuration management and many,
many more things...


James