On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Orlando Andico wrote:
> > i had the impression that the thread context is in cheaplandia where > > telco-class scenarios are irrelevant. kaya nga i was even checking out > > linux against a "2nd-hand bare-minimum 3640". is there a telco very so > > into getting 2nd-hand router stuff proably without after-sales service > > agreements? > > 1) I do know that several large ISP's buy stuff second-hand with no > after-sales service. Comclark is even making a big business out of this okay. ISP naman pala eh. i can understand that. > 2) if you're in cheaplandia, and you're doing BGP in production, you're > doing something wrong. BGP != cheap. kulit. i had to mention BGP only because it's the only *thing* i know of that can really drain a router's memory. memory used by other dynamic routing protocols pales in comparision no matter how large your network is. kung meron akong alam na iba pang process na matakaw sa memory, yun na lang sana ang example na sinabi ko. okay, since i'm having a diffcult time peeling you off that BGP != cheap thing, pls pls allow me to just rephrase the RAM argument: for six K pesos, how far can your linux box outmemorize the 2nd-hand 3640? better? now let's say 1GB is still overkill, then we can use a part of it to mount /tmp and /var dir to avoid using up the flash drive's erase cycles. at this rate, ayaw ko nag mag linx router even for non-telco non-bgp scenarios. ang hirap ipasa kay boss orly eh. pong _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
