On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 12:00 -0600, Steven Alligood wrote: > There are many reasons people buy commercial products, and they are not > all just for support or to use up a budget. Some of the commercial > products are really good. > > All I am trying to say is that on an enterprise or even carrier grade > level, often the commercial product will blow the open source ones out > of the water. It's how they make money.
The key words here being "often" and "some". I have not found a correlation between price paid and quality of the product. Cue Stuart to rant about enterprise software. I've used expensive equipment that wasn't worth its weight in cow manure. OTOH I will swear by Cisco routers and Foundry switches. They are rock solid (and expensive). Back to the OPs question, one device I would mention is Mikrotik. It's a weird name, I'll give you that, but the software is solid. Toss in a Routerboard and you've got a sweet little firewall/router that we use primarily for bandwidth shaping but also have deployed a few as wireless APs, some with captive portals. The software is all Linux based. Corey /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
