From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 12 22:40:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAEFB37B403 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 22:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) id f9D5eQW38618; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 22:40:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 22:40:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200110130540.f9D5eQW38618@earth.backplane.com> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Cc: , Subject: Re: RE: Imagestream WanIC-520 interface cards References: <000401c153a7$409d9ec0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The Cisco 2600 series is great for T1's. A 2620 with a T1 card (it can take up to two) and you are done. The 2501's are ancient, don't even bother any more. You can find 2620's on EBay in the $700-$1500 range, many of which appear (in my quick look) to include a T1 card. As much as I like to support running things on BSD, I stopped trying to run T1's from general purpose unix boxes 4 years ago. When BEST Internet first started we ran the (old) Riscom cards from a BSDI box w/ an external csu/dsu, and they were great for that, but these days the overall cost of ownership is much, much lower with a used cisco and a WAN card with an integrated csu/dsu in it. It's file and forget... once you set the thing up you don't have to touch it ever again. One advantage of the dot-com crash is that EBay and other sites are saturated with high quality, barely used hardware. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message