Tomas Bodzar wrote:
Huh Cisco? Why? I have OpenBSD. It's better and of course a much more cheaper :-) BTW I can't change isp's switch as it's locked downstairs for whole block of flats ;-) (ok, I can't chage it legally :-D)
Cisco is good because anybody with an ADSL, Cable, Serial, VDSL, or Metro Ethernet and even dialup have a really good and stable system in their hands with one of the Cisco routers.
Not only do they get extremely good security but performance from the box too not to forget to mention that IOS is based on BSD originally anyway!
I mean ok I am a Cisco engineer but I'm not biased as stuff like authoritative DNS or DNS forwarding I would never let the router do as I've measured the CPU usage via SNMP and RRD tools on Cacti and it spins up to 100%. But.... for L2 and L3 stuff they're awsome. Anything network related go Cisco as in switches, routers, wireless access points, security appliances and even now NAS drives.
Anything else buy some really cool SPARC servers or desktops and enjoy! Of course monitoring these things is a breeze with any DEC VT100 or compatible terminal used or new as the VT525's are still available.
But then that's just my personal opinion and 99.9% of people will think I'm crazy for even bringing up the VT100.
I'm sorry but the currently ADSL router I have had FreeBSD behind it being used as a radio streaming server and I've now rendered the thing almost unusable as the wireless is completely down and won't connect to OpenSolaris or my Linux installs due to the machine not having enough memory to support what I'm doing. That's why I select Cisco for that stuff as I know it will handle it and the days of hard resets are over when one is attached on the network. Mainly have had a bad time with consumer products; D-Link, Airties and Huwai.... they're all awful to put it politely.
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