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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Core router bakeoff?
Not that I've done it, but you can use Kerberos to remotely manage a Cisco, giving you an encrypted telnet. In fact, does anyone have any pointers about how? Sam -----Original Message----- From: Selina Priestley <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Cc: John A. Tamplin <[email protected]>; Arnaud Girsch <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, May 08, 1998 8:55 PM Subject: Re: Core router bakeoff? >> >> In short, unless you have numbers to indicate otherwise, I can't say >> that PCs cost you much, in the short term or the long term. >> >> What Cisco's will buy you is better handling of T3s, SONET, etc., and >> the ability to handle much higher performance lines. They also have >> much better remote management facilities, in so far as the things have >> real serial consoles and such, which PCs don't. >> >> Perry > >One PC remote management win is that you can actually have secure >encrypted access/authentication for remote management, rather than >relying passwords in the clear and tftp. This is lacking in all >router venders at this instant, far as I know. > >Selina >
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