From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sat Apr 20 2002 - 12:21:05 GMT-3
At 11:45 PM -0500 4/19/02, Brian wrote:
>Thats an LS1010, totally different beast than a LS100
>
>Brian
Don't you think calling a LS100 a beast is insulting to beasts such
as warthogs, anacondas, and hyenas? :-)
Worst command syntax I have EVER seen on a networking device, even
though the Stratacoms at least finish in the top few. It was also
not made by Cisco, but OEM'ed, IIRC, from NEC or NET.
I give this award even after working with things like the Atlantic
Research Intershake, which was the first commercial protocol analyzer
of any type, was programmed in binary (not hex) -- you programmed
through 8 toggle switches and a load button. The Intershake, at
least, was logical if cumbersome. It was a major interface
improvement when they introduced a hexadecimal dial!
Actually, I'm trying to remember if this is one of the devices that
has to go back to the factory for certain resets. That is definitely
true of some of the former Stratacom devices, where you can get the
flash reload sequence sufficiently out of order that the board must
be sent back to Cisco. When I was teaching the 8850 at a Cisco
facility, we still had 3 of 8 BPX's down waiting for processor board
swaps for this reason.
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