Core router bakeoff?

Sat May 9 03:24:44 UTC 1998

Not that I've done it, but you can use Kerberos to remotely manage a Cisco,
giving you an encrypted telnet.  In fact, does anyone have any pointers
about how?

Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: Selina Priestley <selina at ans.net>
To: perry at piermont.com <perry at piermont.com>
Cc: John A. Tamplin <jat at traveller.com>; Arnaud Girsch
<agirsch at OASysGroup.com>; nanog at merit.edu <nanog at merit.edu>
Date: Friday, May 08, 1998 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: Core router bakeoff?

>>
>> In short, unless you have numbers to indicate otherwise, I can't say
>> that PCs cost you much, in the short term or the long term.
>>
>> What Cisco's will buy you is better handling of T3s, SONET, etc., and
>> the ability to handle much higher performance lines. They also have
>> much better remote management facilities, in so far as the things have
>> real serial consoles and such, which PCs don't.
>>
>> Perry
>
>One PC remote management win is that you can actually have secure
>encrypted access/authentication for remote management, rather than
>relying passwords in the clear and tftp.  This is lacking in all
>router venders at this instant, far as I know.
>
>Selina
>