nanog mailing list archives
Re: Cisco hardware question
From: gordon b slater <gordslater () ieee org>
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:50:43 +0000
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 19:16 -0500, Ricky Beam wrote:
It's a DOS FAT filesystem.
hmmmm. hmmmmmmmmmm. FAT. Ah well, there must be a reason I guess. Not exactly what I'd choose for a high security snort box ;) But, horses for courses I suppose. Yes, as others say, good idea to check the s/n's with Cisco directly. You can _never_ be _too_ careful, both security-wise and financially. It's not exactly a cheap piece of equipment, service contracts and licences considered (and I don't mean the GPL one haha ) You can't rreally blame the frontline reps for not knowing what a fsck is, its a new tech concept. Post-80's on fact. Oops, another boot-up un in there, sorry. Humour aside, in fairness, I'm not sure an average rep would know much about QNX dumps either. *nix-y stuff puts you very close to the hardware and architectures. You see it all fly by in the logs and dmesg. Companies like cisco probably like to keep you at arms length from it. In this case you don't see the hardware so much but you "see" the bottom line of the invoice. That gives you all the right in the world to ask deep probing questions whenever you find things like this. A good manufacturer and supplier will answer them fully, though it may take some time to find the right clued-up tech internally. eg: Until you use ZFS you'd never believe the error rates on seemingly good hard drive systems, especially through "high-end" kit with supposedly safe "error correction". What you don't see doesn't worry you. Gord -- oink. oink. alert. oink. snort
Current thread:
- Re: Cisco hardware question, (continued)
- Re: Cisco hardware question Ben Carleton (Mar 04)
- RE: Cisco hardware question Kaveh . (Mar 04)
- Re: Cisco hardware question Brielle Bruns (Mar 04)
- Re: Cisco hardware question gordon b slater (Mar 04)
- Re: Cisco hardware question Stefan (Mar 04)
- Re: Cisco hardware question Ricky Beam (Mar 04)
- Re: Cisco hardware question Seth Mattinen (Mar 04)
- RE: Cisco hardware question Adcock, Matt [HISNA] (Mar 04)
- Re: Cisco hardware question Brian Feeny (Mar 04)
- RE: Cisco hardware question Adcock, Matt [HISNA] (Mar 05)
- Re: Cisco hardware question gordon b slater (Mar 04)
- Re: Cisco hardware question Brian Feeny (Mar 04)
- Re: Cisco hardware question Ernie Rubi (Mar 04)
- RE: Cisco hardware question Joe Johnson (Mar 04)