IANA network engineer but it seems like the world is going towards virtualized networking

nexus etc

i personally feel like IOS is nice though

a shame it's not a standard thing

the Juniper and Unixfags

have been saying that forever

cisco networking should be deprecated it's painful af to use

>painful to use

lel

only for the uninitiated

reee I dropped out because mental illness and apathy

only did pc software and hardware

the second you use any other managed switch you'll see how superior cisco IOS is

what part got ya?

IOS is all pretty easy

t. CCENT

yea

couldn't be bothered with command line autism, loonix command line makes sense, as does windows, but cisco feels painfully autistic

IOS is incredibly straightforward

or maybe I just wanted to die

Cisco will actually list the commands out for you

so I couldn't concentrate enough in high school

and give you their syntax

and no other devices are going to give you on average

you have to grasp the high level concepts of what you're actually trying to do first; then IOS is literally there to help you get it done. the damn things were built with config management baked in

multiple years of uptime

cisco stuff is mostly made in Hong Kong right

like former crown colony HKU engineering

Hong Kong

all very solid

and now somewhere in Eastern Europe

it feels outdated and like some high school autist could just make a simple gui wrapper to make it less painful

it's funny

or maybe that was my mental illness making me incapable of basic tasks

Verizon actually does web graphical wrappers on cisco stuff

for their MPLS clients

it. sucks. ass.

you can't believe how horrible it is

where I agree with you re: cisco pain is how things can go horribly wrong if you don't know wtf ur doing

but that's why certs matter for network engineering and not so much for unix admin

a cisco config is a sharp blade and when you write a command you best know wtf ur doing