Hi all

Ive got two questions hope someone can answer them for me.

1.One of my colleagues is thinking of taking CCNP certification , my question here is what are the advantages/disadvantages of such certificate . also career wise what does the certificate unables you to do. Ive also heard that its quite a costly certificate to enrol for ( therefor my question is on average how much more money are people with CCNP getting compared to those who do not have it)


2. Websense.com have a really go web filtering software package aswell as a good web security suite. My question here is are their any Opensource alternatives out there that match either of these two suite of software packages ?

cheers