"Hiemstra, Brenno" ha escrito:

> Pro's for Hardware FW's (apart from which vendor):
>
> - more scalable

It depends... If you buy a Hub with... say 8 ports, and you need the
9th, you will need to buy another hub with several ports which you won't
need at the beginning... same applies for "appliances" (one-purpouse devices).
If you have a "generic" box, you always can add another card, more
memory or more disk...

>
> - no OS which can have holes / bugs

Have you seen how many new holes were discovered in IOS past year?
If you have an OS (embedded or not), you've an OS...


> I would suggest to go for what you suite best.
> If you like BSD, go for BSD.

I agree with this...

Regards...

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