From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jul 9 18:57:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA28866 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 18:57:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tahoe.cinenet.net (root@ns1.cinenet.net [198.147.76.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA28861 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 18:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hollywood.cinenet.net (hollywood.cinenet.net [198.147.76.75]) by tahoe.cinenet.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA13740; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 18:55:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (sraja@localhost) by hollywood.cinenet.net (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA20246; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 18:55:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: hollywood.cinenet.net: sraja owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 18:55:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Suresh Rajagopalan To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: "Gary D. Margiotta" , Cliff Addy , Nate Williams , isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: T1 upgrade options? In-Reply-To: <2735.868489228@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'll have to speak up for Livingston here -- we use them all the time for customer equipment and also dial in access, and while opinions on the admin interface are subjective, I have never seen a single box crash. > To use a car analogy, Cisco basically produces the Cadillacs of the > router world whereas Livingston makes Yugos and Ascend makes VWs. :-) > Not everyone needs, wants or can afford a Cadillac, but many of those > features are nice to have if you're going to drive a car at all. > Similarly, the "VW" is cheap but of reasonably good quality and the > Yugo, well, you buy one of those when cost is the #1 consideration and > you are resigned to the fact that it'll be no fun to drive and also > perhaps spend some amount of time by the side of the road, waiting for > the tow-truck. :-) >