On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Jimmy Lim wrote: .. > > 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 :)
You can buy a brand-new car for $6000? Jimmy, $6000 for a 240-port AS5300 is CHEAP. The Cisco SRP for that configuration is in the $30,000 range, that's why we love eBay. I think if you get a PC-based RAS/firewall/NIDS and add 240 serial ports AND 240 modems to it, the price will be well above $6000. And that wouldn't even be NEBS-certified. --- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. -- 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
