Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?

Thu Jan 13 15:04:38 UTC 2011

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Brandon Kim" <brandon.kim at brandontek.com>
>To: <cra at wpi.edu>; "nanog group" <nanog at nanog.org>
>Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 8:46 AM
>Subject: RE: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?
>

>
>For ISL, I know they are trying to phase that out. For the exams, they are 
>based on dot1q.....
>
>Even if I had all cisco equipment, I'd try to go with standards because you 
>never know down the road where you may
>need to use another vendor.
>
>I wouldn't use EIGRP if given a choice, I'd go with OSPF or RIPv2.

The main problem with this is RIP sucks and there aren't a lot of people out 
there that are really good with OSPF.  For every one legit design and 
implementation of OSPF, I've seen 50 with every thing in 0 and config 
statements everywhere.

For companies that don't have real dedicated networking people, EIGRP is 
much more easy to admin and troubleshoot.

tv 