From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 1 13:16:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA05547 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 13:16:26 -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 NAA05542 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 13:16:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA19045; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 13:16:52 -0700 Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 13:16:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Veggy Vinny To: Ulf Zimmermann cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about Cisco 2503i price In-Reply-To: <199608012003.NAA29634@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net> 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, Ulf Zimmermann 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... > > > 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. I think that's only if you buy retail... We get it through Pacific Bell's CalREN (California Research and Education Network) for $450 with the Cisco Software revision 10.2 and the 4 megs of RAM... Vince