[20853] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux Router KIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Fraizer)
Wed Oct 28 17:32:05 1998
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:13:34 -0500
To: "Adam D. McKenna" <adam@flounder.net>
From: John Fraizer <John.Fraizer@EnterZone.Net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Actually, dollar for dollar, the linux box will outperform the cisco. What
the cisco gives you is much simpler access to the knobs that make the bells
ring and whistles blow.
At 04:26 PM 10/28/98 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
>
>
>
>
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