[20852] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux Router KIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam D. McKenna)
Wed Oct 28 17:07:50 1998
From: "Adam D. McKenna" <adam@flounder.net>
To: "Michael Shields" <shields@crosslink.net>, <dirk@power.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>, <list@inet-access.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 16:26:42 -0500
So does linux.
Linux can be:
A packet forwarder (router)
A packet filter (firewall)
An IP masquerading packet filter (NAT firewall)
Can run RIP, BGP, EGP, OSPF (via gated)
Maybe I'm being naiive here, but what does Cisco offer beyond this (besides
the availability of higher performance)?
--Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Shields <shields@crosslink.net>
To: dirk@power.net <dirk@power.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu <nanog@merit.edu>; list@inet-access.net
<list@inet-access.net>
Date: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: Linux Router KIT
In article <19981028100541.00359@orlando.power.net>,
dirk@power.net wrote:
> Linux doesn't just kill Microsoft's NT and Solaris. It also eats
> Cisco for lunch.
This isn't true. IOS does a lot more than just get packets from
interface A to interface B. (In terms of managability as well as
functionality)
--
Shields, CrossLink.
