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Cisco to Acquire Linksys
forged writes "The Boston Globe is reporting that networking giant Cisco Systems plans to acquire Linksys later this year for $500M, thus entering the consumer market. Linksys also has a press release. The good news is that those who bought a Linksys access point now have a Cisco access point for 1/2 of the price ;)"
Bwahahahaha BURNINATE
shutup
Today the American's have finally crossed the line to become war criminals.
Shame!
One of my clients set up a Cisco PIX box to VPN into their network. Then he disabled the dial-up account I would use to do maintainance.
So, at first I installed the VPN client on a DMZ box in our network. Now I could run terminal services, but that's next to useless to me. I need to be able to step through code on my machine running against their databases.
So I tried to set up the VPN client on my machine, which is a SecureNAT box behind ISA server. But IPSec cant transverse a NAT wall. So Cisco has a feature where they can tunnel it through UDP ports 500 and 10000. I found a nice MSDN knowledge base article on the whole thing, and configured ISA server to do just that. So I try to connect from my machine, and get 'peer isnt responding errors'.
So I call the client, who conferences me with their "VPN guy". They have a "VPN guy". So he's just a completely clueless shmuck. I ask him to verify that they have the transparent tunneling feature enabled. He looks at his debug logs and sees me connecting, but I'm not getting through. So he forwards his logs to a Cisco guy.
So the Cisco guy answers him, and the email is forwarded to me. It instructs me to set up the firewall to allow IPSec.
But you cant allow IPSec through ISA server. Damnit.
I have work to do over here. Why do these "NETWORK EXPERTS" keep pissing me off.
Damnit.
Now, my question for Ask Slashdot, is there a linux client that I can use to connect to their VPN (FreeS/WAN?), that I could put on the other side of the firewall, and then maybe do something like an IP-IP tunnel from my box to the linux VPN box, which in turn connects to this client, whos pissing me off because he wants all this work done but is too much of a lazy fucker to plug the modem back into the wall so I can dial in to do it?
Now, just to be on topic, I love linksys' stuff. Cheap stuff that works. Two thumbs up. I cant wait for cisco to turn the $5 Etherfast cards into $50 cluster-fsck modules.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Right on man. Right on.
:) nneheneneheeneee!
I'm taking an optics class right now, and the prof. said we could have use single sheet to write equations on for a test. The geek-boys in the class typed up every known equation in Equation Editor and then reduced it to 3-pt font. Then they were all comparing their notesheets, bragging about who had the smallest typesize. I guess most geeks are used to bragging about their small size
goddamn it man, I want to be getting blowjobs when I'm 50.
What the hell has happened to them? Yet another blatant scheme to increase ad revenues? Like the one having "home" link at the bottom of the page point to science.slashdot.org or some other subdomain instead of the real main page?