> 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.
believe it or not, even telcos buy from comclark.
> 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.
well, it's the wrong example. a router is good for SOME things, a linux box is good for other things. sure, a router with lots of RAM will cost a whole lot more than a linux box, but no one in their right mind would run BGP in a production environment on a linux box (other than as a route server, i guess).
same thing, no one in their right mind would run a web server on a router.
at this rate, ayaw ko nag mag linx router even for non-telco non-bgp
scenarios. ang hirap ipasa kay boss orly eh.
hahaha. you know, that's funny, because there was a similar thread a month or two ago about using Linksys dedicated firewall appliances instead of Linux for NAT. :D
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