From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 1 13:05:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA04738 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 13:05:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Gatekeeper.Lamb.net (root@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net [206.169.44.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA04723 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 13:05:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ulf@localhost) by Gatekeeper.Lamb.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA29634; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 13:03:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Ulf Zimmermann Message-Id: <199608012003.NAA29634@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net> Subject: Re: Question about Cisco 2503i price To: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Veggy Vinny) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 13:03:52 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Veggy Vinny at "Aug 1, 96 12:21:47 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Dennis wrote: > > > Your numbers are high (should be around $1600), but you're also getting a > > server for nothing that you can add an ethernet, or upgrade to 100Mbs, > > and it has 3 times the horsepower > > > > ........you'll also need the cisco mem upgrade to do anything useful...... > > You can always get the Cisco 2501 on a PC Card with 4 megs of RAM > for about $500 and just use any old 8088 PC since all it needs is the > power from the slot... As you can program it via the Serial Port on the > card... > > Vince > > > Not completly true. The AP-EC (1 sync serial, 1 Ethernet, 1 async port for config and com port emulation) is list price $695. You need the software for it too, which is $1000 list price. or the AP-EBC card which uses 2 ISA slots and has 1 sync serial and 1 ISDN BRI extra for a list of $1195 plus software again. Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 Lamb Art Internet Services || http://www.Lamb.net/