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Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother))

  • From: Avi Freedman
  • Date: Mon Oct 21 09:25:21 1996

> 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

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