[20907] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux Router KIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Walker)
Thu Oct 29 13:25:32 1998
From: Rob Walker <rob@varesearch.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:49:34 -0800 (PST)
To: cmatei@roedu.net
Cc: alex@nac.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <13880.1886.534318.376426@romsys-sun.Bucharest.roedu.net>
Reply-To: rob@varesearch.com
>>>>> On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:45:36 +0200 (EET), Matei Conovici
>>>>> <cmatei@roedu.net> said:
Matei> Of course a Linux/PC will never beat a cisco :-) but the cost
Matei> is sometimes an order of magnitude lower for roughly the same
Matei> performance.
It is just this point which keeps me running a PC router. I cannot
afford to buy a cisco with 4 100Mbit ethernet cards in it. But I can
afford 100Mbit PC cards all day long. Even one quad card. I would
love to use IOS for the access lists and other goodies.
rob
