[c-nsp] Something I was thinking about whilst idle the other day.

[David Barak]

Make one side of the box the business end, and don't put ANY interfaces on the other side.  (admittedly, this has gotten better over time)

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--- On Thu, 3/20/08, Sam Stickland <sam_mailinglists at spacething.org> wrote:

> From: Sam Stickland <sam_mailinglists at spacething.org>
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Something I was thinking about whilst idle the other day.
> To: "Justin Shore" <justin at justinshore.com>
> Cc: "'cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net'" <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
> Date: Thursday, March 20, 2008, 11:48 AM
> A few things that would make my day-to-day life a litlte bit
> easier, 
> that I really don't think are that hard:
> 
> A text pager that lets you scroll backwards
> 
> Outbound telnet from FWSMs/PIXs (to check port
> connectivity)
> 
> "Show running-config all" for showing full
> configuration (including 
> defaults). This would make parsing configuration templates
> across 
> multiple IOS versions much easier. Actually, let's the
> whole hog...
> 
> A structured grammar for IOS configuration :)
> 
> S
> 
> Justin Shore wrote:
> > Support for 3rd-party SFPs.
> >
> > Support for longer-ranged single-strand optics (10k
> doesn't come close 
> > to cutting it.
> >
> > Configuration comments.
> >
> >
> > Drew Weaver wrote:
> >   
> >>                 What are some persistent things
> about Cisco products that no matter how high into the
> product line you travel you cannot get away from? I was
> sitting around the other day thinking about how odd it is
> that in 2008 the BGP scanner still causes the CPU
> utilization to jump ridiculously high (on pretty much all
> routers I've seen..from 7200 to 128xx), and all of the
> various limitations of the route table sizes in various
> Cisco products. I realize these issues are either harmless
> or explainable ("just the way it is") I just
> think it is a strange/interesting thing to note that years
> later the same issues are still present in technology no
> matter how far up you go in the line.
> >>
> >>                 Not sure what prompt these things
> in my head :D
> >>
> >> -Drew
> >>
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