Hello,
Just felt like commenting on this. I'm experiencing a similar dilemma in
my organization. One of the main routers where where practically all
the internal traffic goes through is a linux router. It has particular
advantages like bandwidth control (HTB), L7 iptables filtering (ipp2p)
and the like. Thing is, the power supply in the campus is pretty much
unstable and I have had bad experiences having disk (or other
components) failures at pretty inappropriate times. While I do have the
apcupsd daemon to auto-shutdown servers when a blackout happens, my
experience is that PC routers simply can't cut it for stability....at
least where I work.
I'm about to replace the PC router with a cisco device. While QoS and
traffic shaping is still possible, I feel I'm going to miss having
content filtering available on the same device. What's irritating is
that while content/application level filtering isn't available in
standard IOS, it isn't also available in the form of a network module.
It appears cisco is actually selling a content/app filtering product in
the form of a standalone appliance.
I guess embedded linux is the answer to all this. Too bad I haven't had
the opportunity/time to experiment with that yet though.
-Paul
Junn wrote:
hi tata,
if you need lots of specialized services in a single box and budget is
limited, go for linux. way too expensive to buy a decent router with
such. but you also have to consider how much electricity your pc will
consume. it like comparing around a 150 watt appliance against about 30
watt (or less) appliance. plus a pc has more moving parts compared to a
router appliance so it's more susceptible to breakdown.
other than that, i guess many usually deploy the same technologies.
-junn-
Tata Dano wrote:
Mga Igan,
broadband router vs. linux as a router....sa tingin nyo ano ang mas
pinaka effective in terms of performance (security, firewall among
others)?
Kelangan ko lang ang expert opinion at argumentong ito in depending my
linux box.
Thanks in advance.
Tata
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