Re: Core router bakeoff?

["Sam Birch" <birchsw () i1 net>]

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 <selina () ans net>
To: perry () piermont com <perry () piermont com>
Cc: John A. Tamplin <jat () traveller com>; Arnaud Girsch
<agirsch () OASysGroup com>; nanog () merit edu <nanog () merit edu>
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