On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 08:04:00PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:12:44AM -0500, Tony Varriale wrote: > > Then hire someone that knows what they are doing. > > Am I the only one to find that sort of remark a bit nasty? > > While not sporting any nice certificates, I consider myself to be > somewhat experienced with Cisco platforms, and Cisco architecture - and > if a prospective customer would have asked me "will NAT and netflow > work together?" I would have checked the documentation, would not have > found anything about that conflict either, and would have said "no > problem there".
But now much money would you commit to that position? You've been doing this a while ... presumably you're well aware that not everything always works togethor on platforms that do most of their switching in ASICs. (I do a lot of GRE tunnelling and have for a long time. The first thing I thought when I learned that Sup720s would support GRE tunnels in hardware was "I wonder what the limitations are". There are many, and only some of them are documented.) The comment you reference above was in respose to this: We don't have the luxury of long, involved RFP with detailed descriptions or time to work with a TME to discuss every detail of every configuration we use. We expect if a vendor advertise features, that they should work, except when they are documented (like caveats). While you might not personally know off hand if NAT and netflow work togethor, if you had a requirement for that functionality and were considering the 65xx/76xx for it, would you read the documentation, not find anything saying they won't work togethor, and then buy it? Or would you do a detailed RFP or talk to a TME about that functionality before buying it? Or if you didn't have the time or talent to do one of those things yourself, would you hire someone who did? The comment was rather blunt, but in terms of content, it was dead on. Buyers need to do their due diligence. Some are large and/or sophisticated enough to do it with in house employees, others need to hire outside talent. But if you do neither, you run the risk of being disappointed. (In response to the comment about "I can't hire anyone who knows about limitations on future unreleased products". Of course you can't. But you can hire someone who knows how to do the necessary due diligence before purchasing a product.) -- Brett _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/