Network Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Mar 11, 2020
They don't track concurrent port usage. We have to do that in another way and it's not a very clean way. That is something that I know they could do, but they don't. I don't know if maybe they have another product or something, but they don't do it in the product we have. The number of ports per device used would have been a big help to us. We had to figure that out ourselves.
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There was only one feature that we found was unavailable which required a workaround that is now in place (IPv6 NATing for a specialized reason).
They don't track concurrent port usage. We have to do that in another way and it's not a very clean way. That is something that I know they could do, but they don't. I don't know if maybe they have another product or something, but they don't do it in the product we have. The number of ports per device used would have been a big help to us. We had to figure that out ourselves.