Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?

2011-01-10 Thread Saxon Jones
In my experience it all comes down to Cisco-certified people being easy to find, and managers not wanting to spend all their time in the hiring process. So yes, I've generally seen Cisco as the de-facto choice, but it's rarely been a technical argument that swings the balance. I'm generally playing

Re: Provider standard ARP Timeout?

2012-08-10 Thread Saxon Jones
I regularly used to lower the ARP timeout to 5 minutes (to match the mac-address-table aging limit) on devices running on ATM LAN-E segments and saw no ill effects. -saxon On 10 August 2012 08:23, Jay Nakamura wrote: > Cisco default ARP timeout is 4 hours. Do anyone change that to > something

Re: PPPoE vs. Bridged ADSL

2009-10-28 Thread Saxon Jones
On Cisco hardware PPPoE was cleaner if you have other ISPs' customers on your network and you want to put them in their own VRF's. I've been out of that world for a while now, so maybe it's changed. -saxon 2009/10/28 JD > There is a debate among our engineering staff as to the best means of > p