Re: Livingston's unreliable? equipment and OS!

Stephen Fisher (lithium@cia-g.com)
Thu, 31 Jul 1997 22:38:45 -0600 (MDT)

On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Jon Lewis wrote:

> As long as I'm off-topic...Hell must be creeping into FDT, cause a pair
> of Ascend P50's arrived today. They (one of my bosses) ask me what I
> recommend, I say "get OR-U's", he orders P50s. Those things don't do

I'll never understand such logic.

> Radius and don't do OSPF...do they? Livingston doesn't have a trade-in

I don't think so.

> program to exchange P50's for OR-U's, does it? I was really pissed when

No.

> To rub salt in the open wound, I suspect the only reason he bought the
> P50's was because the clients who will be on the remote ends of these
> dedicated connections want COMPRESSION. That's the only plus to the P50
> over a current OR-U I can think of. And STAC for the OR-U is supposedly
> going to be in the next release...right?

Yup, *real* soon now - it has been offically announced and everything.

- Steve
- Systems Manager
- Community Internet Access, Inc.
- Gallup and Grants, New Mexico