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- From: warlock@ecst.csuchico.edu (John Kennedy)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
- Subject: Re: How reliable are 9.1 sub-releases ?
- Message-ID: <1ijc5pINN38c@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 07:57:45 GMT
- References: <C0G3J1.4sv@ecmwf.co.uk>
- Organization: California State University, Chico
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- In article <C0G3J1.4sv@ecmwf.co.uk> Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin writes:
-
- --> How reliable are 9.1 sub-releases ? We are currently hesitating between
- --> the following to upgrade all our CISCOs: ...
- --> The protocols we are interested in are IP, ARP, RARP, Decnet and Novell.
-
- We started out with an ancient 8.something release, got a maintenance
- contract and started replacing things. (: We're routing three things... IP,
- AppleTalk and Novell IPX.
-
- IP was semi-exciting, spurred on by network configurations changing under-
- neath me. I was very familiar with it, however, so it went (as far as the
- router software was concerned) without a hitch.
-
- AppleTalk was exciting. If the idea of a protocol behaving like a rabid,
- diseased sex-crased bunny rabbit appeals to you, AppleTalk is for you.
-
- IPX was the worst so far because Novell was such an unknown. Cisco provided
- more useful information about Novell than all their manuals and engineers
- could. Quite disgusting. One bug is making us upgrade from 9.1(1.5) to
- 9.1(2.1), which is the worst I've been dished.
-
-
- So far I've been really happy with the 9.1+ ROMs. Being a University,
- we're running everything from the ancient to the start of the art, new and
- old, all at the same time. I've been _very_ pleased with Cisco's tech
- support. Especially:
-
- Bob "the human protocol analizer" Albrightson
- Phillip Remaker John Wright
- Joanne Boyle David Stine
-
- These people have taken a lot of abuse from me and they've paid off. If
- you have a maintenance contract, go for it. If not, I'd get one set of 9.1+
- proms and one of the newer boot proms so you can load 9.1+ images via TFTP.
-
- --
- p'ch'zarni'chiwkov: the nasty little sound of a sword being unsheathed right
- behind one at just the point when one thought one had disposed of one's enemies.
-