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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!newsfeed.easynet.co.uk!easynet-uk!news.easynet.co.uk!usenet From: chrisy@easynet.net (Chrisy Luke) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Using PC as router ok? Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 21:58:39 GMT Organization: Systems Group, Easynet Group PLC Lines: 31 Message-ID: <323f1d93.200583557@cherry.news.easynet.net> References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960911145226.26774E-100000@syl> <5180oo$blk@vnetnews.value.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: vorbis.noc.easynet.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 X-easynet-cherry: 84299751017931.nnrp On 12 Sep 1996 03:41:12 GMT, patrick@.value.net () wrote: >Buy the Cisco. If you want a dedicated router, buy a router. There is less >to go wrong, their is less overhead, and it will do all kind of neat >routing stuff. If you want it to work without having to go on a 5 day training course and-still-manage-to-get-the-syntax-wrong, buy the PC. BSDi themselves as well a a number of major UK ISP's all use BSDi with Riscom sync cards driving 2mb E1 (Euro equiv. of T1) lines. You get the source, you get gated (where BGP was pretty much developed ;) and a box that's not redundant after you upgrade it. The parts are easy to fix, replace and to find on short notice. You get a system that doesn't *require* i/f based connections wasting-lots-of-ip-addresses. There again, if you don't know what you're doing, buy the Crisco and waste a week on a training course just to fathom our their CD and their idosyncratic command syntax and routing methods. On top of that, you won't need to purchase proprietary leads just to connect it to an X.21 interface and uses standard memory when you find a full routing table just won't fit into 32mb. Chris. == chrisy@easynet.net, chrisy@flirble.org.uk, chrisy@etsiig.uniovi.es == Newsmaster and Senior Systems Developer for Easynet Group Plc. == To Flirble or not to Flirble? That is not a question, but a == statement of being, of life and of survival.