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(RF) network engineer irl (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Do tell me your opinions on Cisco. My work is somewhat adjacent and sometimes there's an overlap but I know very little about it.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

    Overpriced. Overrated. And I hate dealing with their licensing.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago

    God, I agree so hard. And they rename shit rather than sticking to IEEE standards. And while GSM3 is free, the firmwares aren't.

    It is cheaper to buy a $100 48 port brocade off eBay than a $5000 24 port that then requires you to pay to learn how to use it.

    Cisco is the network devil, as well as Fortigate, Juniper, and Sonicwall. Ubiquiti is almost getting to be as bad but in a different way: let's make shit so user friendly that CEOs love it, but user unfriendly so that network guys are like, "dude, this should be fucking simple! I have to dig into all these menus and then find the field buried in a pretty format.

    "Just give me the terminal. Oh, I can ssh in but I don't have sudo. Nope, you need to use the convoluted web UI to so that."

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    As someone who wants to get into networking and also doesn't want to give Cisco money, what do you suggest I do. I currently have some of the comptia certs (net and sec). With my 2-3 years in IT (workjng with networking and servers), how can I improve myself to get another job?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (2 children)

    Its hard right now. Fortinet is one of my favorites for hardware. Tailscale for SDN. Ruckus is underrated.

    Edit: For a career move, do Tailscale.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Who _doesn’t_have shitty licensing?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Ubiquiti! But I also wouldn't run in an enterprise capacity.

    Cisco licensing is getting.... better. I got us on an EA agreement and it's making annual renewals a lot easier.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago

    I would rather just get a $100 brocade off eBay. Ubiquiti edge routers (at least four years ago) were nice but good god: don't let them lose power.

    Fortunately, the router runs off a thumb drive, but when you are trying to fix a network that is in production and the FNG figures he can just power cycle it like Comcast taught him with his router at home.... fml. Especially on a WAN (like ISP), it is a fucking nightmare.

    I have found Sophos and Netgate to be good solutions for small businesses, except setting VLANs on Netgate is a pain, but so is setting a VPN on Sophos. And Sophos is also a licensing bitch.

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