Tom Austin wrote:

> To be honest, it sounds like an opportunity to work with some nice 
> equipment.  It will mean a bit more work for you - but that is also 
> experience.  Sure, you may have to reconfigure them to be 'dumb' 
> switches, but you can still play around with them and learn more 
> networking fun!
> 
> To be honest, it sounds like there are a lot of frustrations at your 
> work.  Pick and choose wisely which frustrations will get you all hot 
> and bothered.  Otherwise you will likely be burned out and very unhappy 
> all the time.
> 
> This sounds like one of those things where I would shrug my shoulders 
> and say 'goodie - shiny new toy'.

Well, it was starting to look like I wouldn't get any new switches at 
all because the UK can't really afford Cisco gear. Since it's apparently 
now comming out of HQ's budget, that's fine.

Also, there's no possibility of reconfiguring the switches in any way. 
It will all be controlled from HQ. I will not be given the passwords 
necessary to do anything to the switches. (If it's anything like other 
Cisco devices, you need to be a Cisco specialist to actually operate it 
anyway.)

I'm not *so* worried about getting Cisco boxes as having to deal with 4 
subnets when we only need 1... But hey, hopefully I'll be leaving soon. 
And then it will be somebody else's problem...

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