Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 11:57:58 -0500 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: Jim Dixon <jdd@vbc.net> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Decision in Router Purchase Message-ID: <199611141657.LAA25717@etinc.com>
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>On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, dennis wrote: > >> The reasons we dont deal with J. Dixon are rather obvious here..... > >Yes. He is given to thinking. thinking can be a bad thing for some.. > >> >> Hmmm, ET takes up two ISA slots? What are the problems with the >> >> ET? >> > >> >The boards that we have -- I think that the date on the PCB is 1992 -- > >I was trying to suggest that perhaps the boards that we had were an >old design, and the problems might have been corrected. I guess they >haven't been. > >> the riscomm design is about the same age.....so whats your point? We > >RISCOM/N2 REV D -- February 1996. the boards were designed in the early 90's, thinking man, they just keep finding bugs......we're on Rev A because we did it right the first time! We also know that the board itself is only a small part of the big picture...the software is much more important to stability and value added functionality. > >> didnt have problems with our design, so we haven't change the copyright. >> Perhaps you'd rather deal with a company that needs 5 revs of a board to >> get it right...but thats your choice. > >No. We manufacture boards on occasion. We are aware that there have >been many advances in the last four years. Perhaps you aren't. The only "advances" with the Riscomm is that is used to not work very well, and now it is better. Get yourself a Rev A N2 board and see what an abortion it was......... >We had support problems because the cards did not work when used as >specified in the manual, because compression didn't compress, because >use of the cards caused system panics, and because calls to your company >for support resulted in just the sort of bad-tempered response we are >seeing right now. I told you you couldnt compress BSD ping packets with our algorithm, and that the compression couldnt compete with specialized compression routers. Compression is a "feature". You also refused to send me your config files and that you didn't have the thing configured correctly (ala the panics). You never did what I asked you to do...I can't help those that dont want it. Other not-so-thinking people did fine with the manuals provided db
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