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Sometimes the Cisco OIP program can be a pain in the ass!

Another partner registers the deal. You are awarded the business, taking less margin than the behemoth vendor in town, to get the deal. Now you’d like to increase your margins and you aren’t able to get the best pricing because behemoth vendor has protected pricing.

Kinda makes for an unfair advantage, and prohibits Cisco’s other partners from growing their business. Keeping the big guy in town big and the small guys small.

My suggestion, OIP Rebate program. When the deal is registered by someone else, but I am awarded the business. I should get that OIP discount as a rebate check.

Come on Cisco! Help your partners grow!

ExpertsExchange has a complete redesign! Looks great guys! Can’t wait.

Chromebooks are available!! Woop! Instant web.

Finally finished out the IPv6 rollout at the house. Tunnelbroker.net tunnel from my 2801 to he.net up, domain hosted here fully IPv6 with email, rDNS, web, all going good. IRC client running v6 too! Only using a handfull of addresses out of my massive /64 they assigned.

Passed the he.net certification too! As of tonight, I’m highest you can get up to, theres only 1,207certified for it out of probably 12,000 total workingon certs.

Now for the hard part. Dual Stacking the office, datacenter, and all our customers! The crappy thing is the majority of our customers are on old routing hardware, which has no future for v6, so at some point, we’ll have to spend some money.

Progress at work: my BGP peer is up with he.net for announcing our /32, our upstream providers wont be giving us native IPv6 until middle of next year, so tunneling is all we’ve got unless we add on some more bandwidth from another upstream provider with native IPv6… possibility.. Need quotes!