[20860] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux Router KIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Wed Oct 28 18:28:23 1998
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:11:37 -0800
To: "Adam D. McKenna" <adam@flounder.net>
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: "Michael Shields" <shields@crosslink.net>, <dirk@power.net>,
<nanog@merit.edu>, <list@inet-access.net>
In-Reply-To: <028301be02b9$ab4feda0$e50984a9@flounder.telecom.idt.net>
At 04:26 PM 10/28/98 -0500, Adam D. McKenna 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)?
Appliance level reliability, like a toaster. Plug it in, turn it on,
configure it once, forget it exists. That's why we moved our printers to a
dedicated print-server (OSIram), from the Linux hosts.
Actually, a cisco may actually double as a toaster, a foot-warmer at the
least <grin>.
BTW, I thank the list for the kind help offered with our Linux NIC routing
problem. It's still not solved, but we've been otherwise $distracted$. I
plan on implementing some of the suggested solutions this week. Again, the
issue is fall-back if our switch goes out again. For this sort of usage,
Linux routing is far cheaper than keeping a cisco laying around.
If the switch goes off, the lights go out, and the party's over. Linux
routing would keep minimal lights on so the party could continue.
>-----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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