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My name is Cisco Montoya. You end of lifed my father. Prepare to obsolete.

If you went to SouthwellSchool prior to 1990, you might remember MajorGay, seriously, there was a teacher there who was the form class teacher for Middle1A (Standard 4) who's name was Major David Gay. He fought in WorldWarII as a 1?tankie.

He had quite a personality. Had used terms like Jankas Parade, Jankas Speeling, and BruceKingsbury will surely remember Jankas French (hey Bruce... do you remember how to request permission to go to the toilet in French ?), anything confiscated went into the "cooler", and so on. He also rocked backwards and forwards when he stood up. Not to mention his sign language "Come here..."

When my brother was in the NZ Army Teritorials, he got to know a few 1?tankies and they had the same personality as MajorGay.

Now those who didn't go to SouthwellSchool prior to 1990 might think I am seriously going nuts (afterall I am a Cisco Nut). But like the Army, in this industry, you get a group of people who spend hours with Cisco equipment, and are known as CiscoGuns?, CiscoKids?, CiscoNuts? and so on.

How do you identify these CiscoNuts? ?

Well for a start they keep bringing up their old school days like an old person with alzymers (corrupted memory) brings up their child hood, or walks out because it's time to feed the cat or dog that died 20 years ago.

CiscoSystems have kindly provided a web interface for their products, so the CiscoNut does the following...

router#config t
router(config)#no ip http server
router(config)#end
router#copy run start

That is standard practice.

Also having a redundant toilet in their work office is standard practice. (why do you think a good quality pastic bag comes with every new Cisco Device ?)

One has got the cellphone number 0-21-2472654 (0-21-CISCOKID).

Another has CCIE as his personalised number plates.


1? For the younger people... War wasn't always about nuclear bombs, or using Boeing 747 jets to destroy a tall building.

Several machines that comprised of bulldozers (without the blades) that had armoured cabs and a canons on top, and machine guns for redundancy purposes. There were two army men inside each tank who were known as tankies - one primarily drove the tank, the other fired the canon, however the purpose of the two men in each tank was for redundancy with load balancing, if one of them was killed then the other drove the tank and fired the canon.

'Tanks' for reminding me about MajorGay tho. Get him talking about the war and you could forget French for the rest of the afternoon. He was a very interesting character.


zcat(1) observes that neither tanks nor cisco routers run on Linux, and politely suggests there's starting to be an inappropriate number of pages on these topics.

DanielLawson points out that the Wiki has a large amount of content thats not "linux" related. If we start saying Cisco content is inappropriate for the Wiki, then we should also start removing information from personal pages and so on. The decision was made fairly early on to allow a community to build up around this Wiki, and Cisco is, IMO, a valid part of this community. Linux is a competitor to Cisco, more so that the other way round. And Cisco is a far more Linux/BSD/Unix friendly topic than a lot of other things that are in the Wiki.

PerryLorier also points out that you need to interoperate with Cisco devices. Linux machines are very much about being network connected, and being network connected usually involves a Cisco somwhere. Linux machines are not designed to handle what Cisco routers can (And do) handle. Interoperability is a very important part of the networking world, and knowing about Cisco is important to understanding this interoperability

CraigBox points out there's as much interoperation with Windows as there is with Cisco in the world, and hopes that people will remember this when discussing what's on topic.

sheesh, whatever.. I just thought four or five links to the same content was getting a bit silly..

BTW; I did a bit or research; "Jankers" is apparently a form of military punishment which involves being confined to barracks, performing tedious and often pointless tasks, and being subjected to frequent uniform inspections. Just in case you wanted to know :)

I was going to provide a link, but I couldn't get onto the wiki yesterday when I had the link handy :(

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NathanWard adds that some Cisco routers have been known to boot Linux. For instance the 2500 series. Furthermore, PIX firewalls are little more than a PC. Intel Pro/s 100 adapters and such.