On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Matthew G. Marsh wrote:
> In this case we get to have essentially the same
> "switching" capabilities as the Cisco AND we get to use much more powerful
> packet filtering than the Cisco.
In any case you can put far more beefy CPUs in a PC than any cisco. More
RAM too.
Plus in the case of hardware failure you can run to the local Wal*Mart and
buy replacement parts. Cant exactly do that with cisco 8)
> As added flame bait... - Currently as of 2.1.somethingorother when the
> policy based routing was added the routing structures you can create with
> Linux are only matched (barely) by IOS 12.x. Linux is somewhat unique in
> that regard.
cisco policy routing is awkward, linux is much nicer
-Dan
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