From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jun 24 6:47: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from slkcpop2.slkc.uswest.net (slkcpop2.slkc.uswest.net [206.81.128.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 894E537B632 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 06:47:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jswarner@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 35016 invoked by alias); 24 Jun 2000 13:46:59 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 35006 invoked by uid 0); 24 Jun 2000 13:46:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO uswest.net) (63.224.105.160) by slkcpop2.slkc.uswest.net with SMTP; 24 Jun 2000 13:46:58 -0000 Message-ID: <3954BAF5.29652D7B@uswest.net> Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 07:43:17 -0600 From: Joe Warner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd newbies Subject: FreeBSD vs CISCO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This may fall in line with questions I had asked in previous emails but can anyone answer another question for me?: If you can take an old 386 or 486, install FreeBSD on it and turn it into a cost effective,secure and highly configurable router, why then do company's continue to pay the big bucks for CISCO routers? Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message