From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 6 17:23:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA16094 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 17:23:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from etinc.com ([207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA16088 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 17:23:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys.etinc.com ([207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA02187; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 20:24:21 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19980106202619.00e0eae0@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 20:26:19 -0500 To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Luis_E._Mu=F1oz=22?=" From: dennis Subject: Re: ISP Conversion Cc: isp@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id RAA16090 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 04:33 PM 1/6/98 -0400, Luis E. Muņoz wrote: >At 11:35 AM 06/01/1998 -0500, you wrote: >[snip] >>You'll be spending >>big bucks on higher end ciscos before you know it, so you might as >>well get familiar with freebsd routers now. You might have to replace >>the fan in your power supply once a year, but thats about it. >> >>this is so silly. Please read http://www.etinc.com/routers.htm for the other >>side of this ridiculous set of arguments. > >>>> If you're under a cost constraint, try to get a few used Cisco 2501. >>>> They're *much* more reliable than servers for this job (in my opinion >> >>And why do you think there are so many used ciscos for sale? :-) > >Why don't you tell us ;) 'cause they can't do what you really need to do, so you'll be selling them and buying something bigger shortly. what is IBM screeching about these days...scalability. Dennis