I appreciate Cisco. It's what I first learned on. It's been some time since I actually touched one though. What annoyed me was not the cost (it's not my money anyway), it was the inconvenience. I'd want to use a feature and find out it works on this model, but doesn't work on this other model. Or it works on both models, but for some reason they have different command syntax. Or I have to load an IOS version with a different feature track. Or it needed a license. Or it needed a certain card to activate that feature. I don't want to spend my time on that stuff.
What I most appreciate about Mikrotik is that every box has every feature. Of course it helps that it's very cheap. If I was the one-man band spending my own money, and trying to own a WISP and run it too then I'd have uses for Mikrotik. Where I'm at now there's zero chance that I'd go to the engineering director and tell him to spend money on Mikrotik rather than Juniper and Arista. When they make a Mikrotik with dual routing engines, 6 power supplies, and 400Gbps ethernet ports then maybe we'll talk about it. -Adam -----Original Message----- From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Daniel Pautz via AF Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 9:12 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <af@af.afmug.com> Cc: Daniel Pautz <d...@webnx.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cisco Licensing There has been a lot of Cisco hate to go around, honestly over the years that is all I have seen with WISP's, "GOOOOOO Microtik, fuck cisco!!!". To answer your question the switch will work fine after that. Its likely the demo of the advanced services which would be more than simple vlans. I am obviously biased myself towards Cisco, we have on staff CCIE's and large ASR's at all our locations running nearly 1Tbps of capacity, but dealing with large internet routers all that is out there is Cisco, Juniper, Arista and Extreme Networks (still blows my mind extreme bought brocade and didn't keep the better name). Dan -----Original Message----- From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Nate Burke Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 4:03 PM To: Animal Farm <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: [AFMUG] Cisco Licensing I just picked up a used Cisco 3650 switch off Ebay because I needed 48 POE ports that can do Vlans on the cheap. When I go into the 'Licensing' screen through the browser, it shows Authorization Status 'EVAL MODE' with a 90 day countdown timer. Will the switch stop working after 90 days? I haven't used anything Cisco in a long time. 3500 switches were the last thing I dabbled with. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
