From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 1 13:13:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA05394 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 13:13:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05384 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 13:13:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA18800; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 13:13:50 -0700 Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 13:13:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Veggy Vinny To: Dennis cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about Cisco 2503i price In-Reply-To: <199608011939.PAA22482@etinc.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 On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Dennis wrote: > >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... > > But the only thing good about a Cisco 2501 is its perceived reliability and "no > moving parts". Their O/S isnt so great that I'd want to put it in a > PC...you're much > better off with unix in that case.... Well, you don't really need Unix or anything since it's the cheapest solution possible... You can do it with Unix but you still need a router card I think... Vince