Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 16:48:34 -0600 From: "Tyson Boellstorff" <tboellst@willinet.net> To: "MegaFred" <mfred@zen.triax.com>, "dennis" <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: "Luis E. Muņoz" <lem@cantv.net>, "freebsd mailing list" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ISP Conversion Message-ID: <002301bd1af5$38efef00$02010c0a@moe.splarg.org>
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>> >> this is so silly. Please read http://www.etinc.com/routers.htm for the other >> side of this ridiculous set of arguments. > >I'm reading this page, and can't really tell. Are you for or against the >idea of custom-built PC routers? I think that when each can be an appropriate tool in the appropriate situation. I've used PC routers in the past with great success. I also use them as centrally located places for network access tools. If the load gets too heavy, I move the load off. Simple as that. I get really high loads, I might go with Cisco, but then again, it all depends on how I'm setting things up. Failure can affect many things, routers and PC's are no exception. A lower MTBF can be compensated for. Plan carefully regardless of how you route. There are too many idiotic myths being perpetrated. Saying you are for or against a piece of hardware is like saying you are for or against hammers. Someday, in this best of all possible worlds, we will no longer get vendors slandering other products because they: a) Don't understand it. b) Don't want to support it. c) Want you to buy their product. It's one thing to promote your company's products, and another thing entirely to slander your competitors. I just dealt with another OS war rumor today: It seems that a certain software vendor's technical support is saying UNIX is obsolete because it can't support modern PC hardware (couldn't keep up with that fast hardware). I asked him if his boss knew he/she'd hired an idiot, or was an idiot as well. ;-) I refuse to buy products from people like that. I and my products may be next in line to be slandered, and I'd rather they go broke before that happens.
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