> From firewalls-owner @
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COM Thu May 12 15:30:50 1994
> Date: Thu, 12 May 94 17:16:40 EDT
> From: tdn @
tdn .
xyplex .
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> To: kozowski @
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> Cc: Firewalls @
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> Subject: Re: Looking for Net Monitoring Pkg
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> "kozowski" == Eric Kozowski <kozowski @
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com> writes:
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> >kozowski> the best, most complete solution was Spectrum from
> >kozowski> Cabletron. It's pricey ($20k), but you get what you pay
> >kozowski> for. They also have an extremely good eval policy. I got
> >kozowski> a 30 day eval license _and_ the flew a tech guy up here for
> >kozowski> two days! It's a great product.
>
> The problem with ctron's Spectrum is that it is huge, and as you
> mentioned, *very* pricy. In addition, the word out is that it is
> bug prone.
>
> --tOm
>
>
We have found Spectrum to be a real pain to keep working. Modeling
is a fair amount of work, and we are constantly losing link information
if we don't reload the database often (every day or so....) I will be
installing the latest release Real Soon Now and hopefully that will
get it working better.... At the moment, I could not recommend the
product.
Dabe
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