The Cisco 2600 series is great for T1's. A 2620 with a T1 card (it
can take up to two) and you are done. The 2501's are ancient, don't
even bother any more. You can find 2620's on EBay in the $700-$1500
range, many of which appear (in my quick look) to include a T1 card.
As much as I like to support running things on BSD, I stopped trying to
run T1's from general purpose unix boxes 4 years ago. When BEST Internet
first started we ran the (old) Riscom cards from a BSDI box w/ an external
csu/dsu, and they were great for that, but these days the overall
cost of ownership is much, much lower with a used cisco and a WAN
card with an integrated csu/dsu in it. It's file and forget... once
you set the thing up you don't have to touch it ever again.
One advantage of the dot-com crash is that EBay and other sites are
saturated with high quality, barely used hardware.
-Matt
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