Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 13:47:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: ulf@lamb.net (Ulf Zimmermann) Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about Cisco 2503i price Message-ID: <199607301847.NAA22991@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199607301815.LAA24827@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net> from "Ulf Zimmermann" at Jul 30, 96 11:15:08 am
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> Hi everyone. > > I am looking into buying a Cisco 2503i router and have a quote of > $1866 with IP feature set. Is this a good price ? > > Regards, Ulf. I guess that depends what you plan on doing with it. Some of us think that a PCI FreeBSD box makes a nice inexpensive router. It may at least be an option that you should consider. For Ethernet/Ethernet routing, it is hard to beat pricewise. Take a 486DX/133 PCI MB+CPU ($150), 21040 Ethernet ($50) x 2, 8MB RAM (< $100), a small hard disk ($150), and a case and misc ($100)... about $600. If I recall correctly, a 2503 is an ISDN-capable router, or maybe one of their other access routers.. I don't know what it does for ISDN though. I do know that I can get a BitSurfer Pro for about $375, and since you'd only need one Ethernet, you could have an async ISDN router for about $925. If you want a sync serial port, I encourage you to consider ET's products (http://www.etinc.com), you'd probably wind up closer to $1200 without an ISDN solution.. In any case, I _suspect_ that the FreeBSD box would make a faster router than the Cisco. However, it does have "moving components" and therefore is perhaps more subject to failure... this has been debated often enough that I'm not going to go any further than this. ... JG
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