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[Bill Vermillion]

press any key to reboot  -oops- Bill Campbell said on Mon, Feb 21 19:03  

> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> >John Esak, the prominent pundit, on Mon, Feb 21 21:36  while half 
> >mumbling half-witicized: 
> >
> >> > The 1720 is not that expensive going for under #1000, however
> >> > our
> >>
> >> That's pretty annoying... I bought the 1720 a few years ago,
> >> but it was most certainly not under $1,000. MOre like $2,600
> >> or so??? Can't remember, but it was a heck of a lot more than
> >> $1000.
> >
> >Well we weren't exactly "happy campers" when we found market value
> >of the 7210 at about $2K either
> 
> I have some rather expensive Ascend Maxen that aren't worth much today.
> How about three Telebit WorldBlazers and a TrailBlazer that are holding
> down a shelf in my server room.

> >> I just ordered a Sonic Wall for $500_ that will blow away
> >> the features and performance of that Cisco... will put it in
> >> tomorrow and /or next day move the server back there.

> >Really nice little units.

> Has SonicWall ever released anything that doesn't require a
> Windows box to maintain it?  I really prefer routers that I can
> ssh into, and CLI maintenance.  We used to use a fair number of
> Bay Networks routers, but I hated their SiteManager program.

Any web browser should work with Sonic.  So that broadens the field
abit.

Setting up VPN's and getting the remote authentication set up
correctly would strike me as a bit of a challenge in the CLI mode.

On the Foundry Networks devices you can ssh, or set up an HTTP
session - the CLI interface is almost identical to Cisco.

Bill
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