So why does everybody use Cisco?

[marsd]

Am I the only one who gets tired of cisco pushing their
cracked idea of an IOS on people, with counterintuitive
syntax(NAT), ordinally stupid access lists, unix like
'improvisations' that don't go far enough, and basically
bad attitude support.

Anybody with similar ideas or bad experiences.
I'll no longer use the junk despite holding
a CCNA, CCNP, and CCDA. It's garbage to a large
extent.

 

[vipergg]

All equipment has its flaws , Cisco is no exception . Unfortunetly they have made it so they are mostly the only game in town unless you have big enough ones to use something like Foundrys Netiron boxes which is good stuff . some Ciscos reliability has been less than stellar , case in point Cat 4000's with SupII's . We have had to replace literaly dozens of these Supervisors on our networks and continue to get approx. 1 a month biting the dust . Some of the syntax is not intuitive . Back in the good old hub days Synoptics (now Nortel was better than any cisco stuff . Great troubleshooting tools with built in packet capture capability . Don't know why they don't include some of this stuff in the current cisco gear . The diagnostics in most cisco gear is mediocre at best . The best product they built so far was the Cat 5000 line of equipment where the reliability was excellent . Cat 6000's I say have been average for reliability , we have had a number of failures on that line also . They need to work on relibility , ease of use on all there equipment and quit making the IOS so bloated .

 

[marsd]

I agree. The ios functionality was so limited
in some users(and I imagine cisco programmers)
regard that cisco actually started to embed a
tclsh interpreter in the ios of certain models
and enable the scripting of certain operations
at one time(maybe they still do).
Good idea as an adjunct, but in this case it
seemed like a design band-aid and definite bloat.

I haven't had the bad experiences with cisco
hardware though I have outgrown the capabilities
of several routers and switches which was very
expensive. That is no longer an issue, thank
goodness.

 

[ccmuser]

What percentage of the cisco users market share is really requiring a GUI? They have played with gui in the past and still offer one know.. but the demand for the service is not that great. I would rather have more CPu cycles longer uptime.. quicker implentation of new features. ease of managment across enterprise then a GUI.. If you are more concerned about the GUI buy a LINKSYS..

 

[ccmuser]

I was on my router yesterday and wanted to perform two way dynamic nat with nat pools chosen according to both the sourse and destination pairs. oddly it seems the web page is missing this check box????

CAN SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!