Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 15:48:02 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changed to: Frac T3? Message-ID: <199611182148.PAA03264@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199611182057.PAA00824@etinc.com> from "dennis" at Nov 18, 96 03:57:25 pm
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> Geeeeeeez...they spend a ton of money brainwashing the marketplace > and controlling the technology to keep the numbers UP for peetes sake!, > thats the idea. Selling twice as much for half the margin is a net loss. So is selling half as much for twice the margin, because at some point the amount sold must approach zero :-) But really price is only part of it. I hate "golden bits of hardware" and avoid them whenever possible... be it Ciscos or whatever. There are incentives beyond price alone for hacker types to go soup up a UNIX box and use it as a router... Here is a point though where Dennis will philosophically disagree with me, and that is all right. Dennis makes a big point out of the fact that a UNIX router can perform other services too... I do NOT believe in that paradigm. So for me, specializing a UNIX kernel for a router would not be a bad concept, but Dennis probably would not agree. I wonder if ipfilter's "fastroute" command would make any difference for well known destinations.. hmm ... JG
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