Review Questions
| 1: | Why aren't some of the features of security or scaling problems disabled by default? |
| 2: | What is a “turn-key” NMS? |
| 3: | What are the storage requirements for Netflow? |
| 4: | What are the storage requirements for SNMP and logging? |
| 5: | Could NTP be provided as a service to customers? |
| 6: | Are there routing protocols that dynamically route around points of congestion in the network? |
Answers:
| A1: | Security and ease-of-use are often contradicting requirements. Some of the features make life easier if they are enabled. Having said that, increasingly the emphasis is on scalability—and particularly security. Some of the features recommended for disabling or enabling in this chapter have already become defaults in version 12 of IOS. More changes ... |
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