[geeks] Moving on

[Bill Bradford]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 07:13:01AM -0500, Ido Dubrawsky wrote:
> I am leaving Cisco for Callisma (I start on the 7th of March...my last
> day at Cisco is March 4th)...the consulting arm (or one of them I
> presume) of SBC.com (funny how I hated them when they were my phone
> company in Texas and now I'm going to work for them).  

Someone on another list said:

"SBC's idea of conditioning a line for data service is removing the barbs
 from the wire and changing the fence staples."  :)

> Unfortunately I have to give some gear back to Cisco (namely a 2621
> router, a PIX 515 firewall, a 2924XL switch, and a 2511-RJ router) and
> reorganize my network.  I've already replaced the 2621 router with a
> SPARCstation 10 running Solaris 9 with IPF (boy, that was a pain to
> get working...IPF didn't behave like I expected it to...but that's
> another story...and yes, I could have installed NetBSD on it -- or
> OpenBSD on it and run a more modern -- and less burdensome operating
> system -- but I needed something up and running ASAP).  

I'm in love with my Linksys WRT54G with Sveasoft custom firmware.

> I'm glad I'm on this mailing list.  I hope to be able to contribute
> more to this list in the future.  Thanks Bill for this list...I know
> that over time you've had your fair share of headaches from it....but
> thanks for keeping it going.

Good luck, Ido!  Will you be continuing to write books as well?

Bill

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bill bradford
houston, texas