How do some of these engineers get to where they are?
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I just had a network engineer at a company "With thousands of employees located throughout North America, Europe and Asia" tell me that our cisco 4331 would not work at all under a 1GbE connection from our ISP because we had the default aggregate license.
Let me clarify, he didn't say it would only work at 100x100, he said it would not work at all!
We understand it will only work at 100x100 while connected to a 1000x1000 connection unless we buy the Performance or Boost license. I can't believe he said it simply would not work.
Sheesh!
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@JasGot well, as a vendor rep, not really his job to know IT. I say this constantly... vendors aren't IT, their reps are sales people. His job is to get money from you, not to give you useful advice.
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@scottalanmiller
But he's not a vendor rep. He's the network engineer in charge of all the routers and vlans back to corporate for 84 shopping malls. He an employee of the corporate offices.This is his responce to my telling him he is nuts for saying it won't pass the traffic if the isp is faster then the Cisco:
"I have been through this before at other malls. Our NOC has been heavily involved, but I will check with them again to see if there is anything we can do.
What I have personally seen, the issues which arise w/o the software licenses, is a higher speed connection overdrives the router, causing choppy audio & slow internet as a result."Even in if this is true, this is a far cry from "it won't pass the traffic without the license"
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I would say "choppy audio & slow internet" = "does not work at all"
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@Carnival-Boy But if they have 100Mb now and it works fine, how will 100Mb be slow and choppy with a faster ISP?
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@JasGot said in How do some of these engineers get to where they are?:
But he's not a vendor rep. He's the network engineer in charge of all the routers and vlans back to corporate for 84 shopping malls. He an employee of the corporate offices.
oh then... um...
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@JasGot said in How do some of these engineers get to where they are?:
@Carnival-Boy But if they have 100Mb now and it works fine, how will 100Mb be slow and choppy with a faster ISP?
That can actually happen. If you overdrive the router, packets arrive but dont get processed efficiently. Then it starts dropping things.
