On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Graeme Mathieson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 10:02:49AM +0100, Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire >wrote: > > > > Apart from the fact it's one of the most powerful/useful routers that money > > can buy, it's also one of the cheapest - it's FREE (both beer & speech, > > which is good, because free beer normally increases speech) Tell all your > > friends about it. > > Though the hardware to do the line protocol conversion usually isn't > free. And chucking good enough quality hardware at it to route stuff as > fast as humanly possible (trying to do routing linespeed between 8 > 100MBit network interfaces, for example) isn't exactly cheap either. > > IOS isn't necessarily the expensive bit of a Cisco router.
More likely the High Speed Synchronous Interfaces. Price up an Eicon card for Linux.. That said Enterprise IOS costs, should you have a need to route DECnet, OSI etc. > Of course, I use Linux boxen for all my routing needs anyway. :-) I use OpenBSD. I don't entirely know why, I think I just fall all the security stuff. It is handy though in a firewall/router, and it does support hardware crypto accelerators out-of-the-box. Someone mentioned Fritz! PCI ISDN, if anyone has one going spare I may be interested. Unfortunately ISDN support in OpenBSD is poor and calls for ye olde hardware. Cheers, Andrew _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
