Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 21:51:52 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <chip.wiegand@simrad.com>, "fbsd" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: replacing a cisco router with a fbsd box Message-ID: <010001c132a1$d11ac300$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <3B8F90CB.CEFC484C@wiegand.org>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Chip >Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 6:28 AM >To: fbsd >Subject: replacing a cisco router with a fbsd box > > >At work I have 3 cisco routers - a 1600, 2500, 2600. The 1600 has proven > >to be the most unreliable piece of crap imaginable. Your probably experiencing this because you DON'T have Cisco Service, and thus aren't allowed to log into Cisco and download current firmware images for the routers. What people don't understand when they purchase Cisco routers is that Cisco isn't like LinkSys or most other retail devices where there is just ONE version of firmware and when a bug is discovered in it the manufacturer releases a new version. With Ciscos there are many, many versions that do different things. If you as a purchaser aren't willing to spend the extra money for a Cisco service or retain someone like me (who works on the things professionally among the many other things I do) then I say you have no business purchasing the devices to start with. It's like people that purchase Holly carburetors. They may be 10% better than the competition, but you have to understand that unless you commit to tuning the thing every so often, they will run like crap. Cisco IOS is just like any other operating system, there's good versions and bad versions. Cisco deferrs the bad versions quite rapidly but unless you have some experience with IOS versions, your not going to understand what's going on with IOS versions even if you did have COO access. We have many, many customers with rock-solid 1600's. Frankly if yours is such a piece of junk then please sell it to me for what you are saying it's worth and I'll find a good home for it. :-) Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com The cisco router >runs >nat and firewall services currently, should be easy to replace with a >fbsd >box. >I am wondering if it is possible to replace it with a fbsd machine? >The problem I see with this is the connection of the csu/dsu to the >router - >it uses some funky block connector to plug into the cisco router. Is >there a >way to convert that block connector (I don't know the proper name for >it), >to plug into an ethernet card on the fbsd box? Or is there a pci card >available >for the fbsd box that will accept this funky block connector? > >-- >Regards, > >-- >Chip Wiegand >Computer Services > >Simrad, Inc > >chip.wiegand@simrad.com > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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