This is part 2 retelling the end of CDFW's battles with his company's network demons. You can read about CDFW's travails in the CDFW arcs. Part 1 began this CDFW recounting his experiences with various routers...
"The cheap ones were the first ones to provide a web interface and make it a reasonably human task to configure them. The expensive ones lagged behind on that, and long after I'd been doing all my settings from a web browser, I watched some guys installing a T1 router that was VERY expensive. They stood in a closet with their laptop connected by a serial cable to the back of the router and typed in commands for two hours before they got anything working, much of that spent with their phone to their ear, talking to somebody back at the office.
"And no wonder. The T1 router I've been working with has a command-line manual that gives you all the commands for doing that serial cable thing. The manual is 2048 pages long. Before I downloaded it, I'd planned to do a quick read-through to familiarize myself with the capabilities, but I really preferred to work with the web interface, which wasn't too bad. Probably about forty screens total. Fewer than Microsoft Word."
More to follow...
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