For your curiosity... It's not my choice. The router is not our, it's a rental. And it's going to be cheaper to install a fucking old machine with Linux on it instead of buying the router.... No comment please.
Scouby At 12:22 2002-04-29 -0600, you wrote: >Eric, > Why are you replacing a Cisco 2600? (just out of curiosity). If I was >to get serious with it, I'd install mandrake 8.2 on the linux box and have >FreeSWAN for your VPN solution :) > >Vasiliy Boulytchev >Colorado Information Technologies Inc. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Eric Daigneault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:54 AM >Subject: Cisco 2600 replacement > > > > Hi everyone, > > Soon, I will replace a Cisco 2600 by a Linux Box. I want to use Netfilter > > to have some feedback of the traffic on the machine. I know that basicly, > > Netfilter is use for security purposes, but i'm sure it can be veryuseful > > in giving some feedback on plain routing. > > > > First, I want to know if anyone ever did that and a few tip would be > > appreciated ???? And if it's worth it ?? of course. > > > > Then, off-topic unfortunatly, if someone ever did that switch, is there > > anything I MUST know about the job a cisco router's doing compare to a > > linuxbox. Don't tell me that I have to know the routing table.... I'm not > > that stupid :-) But just some stuf that I might forget ??? > > Thanks... > > > > P.S. I will also put a good traffic monitor on the box... The concept of > > Netfilter is just to add some feed back. > > > > Scouby > > > > > >
