Re: alternative to Cisco routers

2001-02-14 Thread mtieast
I like the use of "real router". What is a "real" router. Routers route using layer 3 info. PC's are and can be made routers. And yes they are "real" routers. -Original Message- From: John Nemeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: anthony kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fowler, Robert J. <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: alternative to Cisco routers

2001-02-14 Thread mtieast
Cisco is not the Webster dictionary of technology even though we are all trying for their prized certificates. If you ask Novell, SUN, or Microsoft they will also tell you that their OS' can facilitate routing and they will even call them routers when configured as such. IMHO (And according to a

Re: alternative to Cisco routers

2001-02-15 Thread mtieast
Why would you not trust a Linux box to route? What experience or documentation do you have that would lead you to believe that a properly configured Linux box could not or would not do the job. There are a lot of companies using Linux these days. One of largest distributed processing systems is ba

Fw: Number of new CCIE's (off topic)

2001-02-15 Thread mtieast
Sorry, I must rant. The Dr./lawyer analogy does not fly. If you could pay 100 bucks and be an M.D. or $200.00 to pass the bar without any real merit your damn right Doctors and Lawyers would be up in arms about it., they would be discussing and fighting all the way. Not to mention the

Re: Number of new CCIE's (off topic)

2001-02-15 Thread mtieast
nyone want it? -Original Message----- From: mtieast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, February 15, 2001 1:57 PM Subject: Fw: Number of new CCIE's (off topic) > > > >Sorry, I must rant. > >The Dr./lawyer ana

Re: Firewalls and VPNs

2001-02-16 Thread mtieast
I think this comes from the fact that cisco instructors in class say that the Pix is not a router. I have heard this as well when I had the class. I know the Pix is not a router, but does it route? Well, if making decisions about where to send traffic based on layer 3 info is routing then I would

Re: Firewalls and VPNs

2001-02-16 Thread mtieast
Maybe it is because it does not base forwarding decisions on layer 3 info alone but also takes into account layer 4 and 7 info as well? -Original Message- From: haroldnjoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: groupstudy.cisco To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, February 16

Re: Lad scheduling question

2001-02-16 Thread mtieast
You have 3 years to complete the CCIE lab. You must make your first attempt within 12 months of the written. If you fail the first time you still have the balance of the three years to complete it. -Original Message- From: Arthur Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: groupstudy.cisco

Re: Citrix is faster via Internet than LAN/WAN

2001-02-20 Thread mtieast
We had had the same issues and a similiar situation. We enabled priority queueing for a time (Which worked great) and then moved to a custom queue as our Citrix traffic increased and started hogging all the bandwidth. This made quite a difference of course and may be something you wanna try.