Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 11:57:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Lamb.net> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about Cisco 2503i price Message-ID: <199607301857.LAA24898@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net> In-Reply-To: <199607301847.NAA22991@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from Joe Greco at "Jul 30, 96 01:47:08 pm"
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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. I know, I do that all the time. but in this case I need an external box. > > 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. The 2503i is hardware wise a 2503, that means 2 serial WAN ports and 1 ISDN port. The 2503i is a so called mission specific version, which means it runs only the ISDN port and the serial ports are disabled. > > 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 > So to finish it, I am really only looking for a compare what other people might have paid, or have in their price list ;-) Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 Lamb Art Internet Services || http://www.Lamb.net/
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