Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 23:00:08 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about Cisco 2503i price Message-ID: <17416.839300408@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Aug 1996 16:44:26 EDT." <199608052044.QAA00357@etinc.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Dennis wrote in message ID <199608052044.QAA00357@etinc.com>: > > >before... I heard Ascend, Adtran, and Cisco is the way to go. > > This is the truly exasperating part of this (damned) business! Perhaps you'd care to explain why a FreeBSD PC built out of your products is better than a $38k Cisco 7010, with 8 sync serial ports, 2 100bTX fast ether ports and a HSSI port? I doubt you could even DO that with a single PC... I agree, for someone who doesn't have the money or the need to go with the expensive stuff, then it's worth a look, but we do, and I would NEVER recommend a PC for what I'm looking to do ... I've seen too many of them fail for mysterious reasons, and then find that your SCSI cable has gone bad for some reason. There are just too many point of failures in a typical PC for me to be happy. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?17416.839300408>