From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Aug 5 20:00:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA12564 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 20:00:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (root@orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA12550 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 20:00:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA17420; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 23:00:08 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: orion.webspan.net: Host gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Question about Cisco 2503i price In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Aug 1996 16:44:26 EDT." <199608052044.QAA00357@etinc.com> Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 23:00:08 -0400 Message-ID: <17416.839300408@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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