On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 09:32, Jimmy Lim wrote: > On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 20:57, Orlando Andico wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Jimmy Lim wrote: > > .. > > > > > when i can find a cheap openBSD box with 120 modem ports i'll give that a > > try. :D > > I believe there's a lot of communications adapters out there that can > support hundreds of ports. > > > you can buy a Cisco AS5300 on ebay with 240 ports for $6000. reliable pa, > > not like a PC. the only problem with lots of dynamic ACLs set by radius is > > that the 5300 runs out of CPU (100Mhz processor only). > > That's too expensive, I can even buy a brand new car for that. > Gigahertz processor are now cheap, doing a PC based RAS/Firewall/NIDS > can save you a lot of money and having a proactive performance of > service :)
That could be if you're serving only a few lines... but connecting lots of lines is quite another story. Networking a couple of PCs that would serve the RAS functionality is doable, however the cost of the consumed electricity for all the machines quickly negates the benefits of the PC based RAS compared to one single appliance that would serve lots of ports and yet have the features required. Each technology has its own place I guess... -- -->paolo Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________ Philippine Free Network Group free.net.ph -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
