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    Sometimes the smallest things kill me with Cisco...

    <rant> <vent> Someone tell me... when you pay thousands of dollars for hardware (and software) and not only does it crash under a relatively moderate load (>2000 concurrent call legs, sans media), but still exhibits very stupid flaws in common logic, what are we supposed to think? Is it...
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    Smallest chassis including PS/RAM/2HD/CPU/MB?

    Not being much of a server/workstation kind of person, I'm going out on a limb here to ask for some help. I consult for a relatively medium-sized network whose owner is building a special cluster of several thousand nodes. Space and power considerations are at a premium and based on his...
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    RANT: Netgear FSM L3 switches --> JUNK

    Just a quick rant that I will never, ever, ever agree to even look at, diagnose or integrate one of these devices again. They're garbage -- rubbish, I say! Horrible interface, terribly naming convention for common protocols, and L3 access security on vlan interfaces is a kludge and not well...
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    Cisco 3G HWIC interface?

    Cisco 3G/HWIC Interface Very interesting -- now, if only they made a VWIC-4GSM!!! Regardless, I really like the idea of the 3G/HWIC b/c it would make for a great OOB administration channel in the event of link outages.
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    PHP CSV file as database table

    Just curious -- I need to build a quick stand-alone application and prefer not to involve a formal database whatsoever for reasons not worth discussing. Performance is a non-issue, and filesystem security is adequate as it will never see the light of the Internet. Perl has the DBI module...
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    Microsoft Security Engineer Job is in Top 10 ... WORST

    El Reg Article "PopSci places a job on the Redmond battlements at number five, worse than whale-dung analyst, corpse-maggot expert, Olympic drug tester and zero gee health-effects guinea pig." - Lewis Page, El Reg I almost lost my coffee on this one -- this has to be in my top-10 articles...
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    <RANT> Cisco COR limitations

    <RANT> I've been frustrated with this limitation for years. Does anyone have any insight as to why COR class space is limited to 64 members? It really requires some creative solutions that make configurations unnecessarily obtuse to evaluate when implementing large (>10k) dial-peer...
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    AS5350XM vs 3845 raw performance?

    I and a friend were speculating today at the office about which of these could handle a higher volume of calls (via ipipgw image as a SBC while proxying media), being that Cisco states the AS5350XM can theoretically handle 1000 sessions (2000 legs) and he's seen the 3845 reach somewhere in the...
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    CAS 2.5 = which timings???

    If the proposed RAM is PC2700, and it advertises CL2.5... can it run CAS 2-2-5-2 @ 133MHz speeds? I'm currently using Mushkin PC3200 that runs (with ease) CAS 2-2-5-2 in the BIOS of my DP533-S. If I switch to the PC2700 that is CL2.5, will I lose any performance if I never plan to overclock...