Linux Router KIT

Wed Oct 28 22:13:34 UTC 1998

Actually, dollar for dollar, the linux box will outperform the cisco.  What
the cisco gives you is much simpler access to the knobs that make the bells
ring and whistles blow.

At 04:26 PM 10/28/98 -0500, you wrote:
>So does linux.
>
>Linux can be:
>
>A packet forwarder (router)
>A packet filter (firewall)
>An IP masquerading packet filter (NAT firewall)
>Can run RIP, BGP, EGP, OSPF (via gated)
>
>Maybe I'm being naiive here, but what does Cisco offer beyond this (besides
>the availability of higher performance)?
>
>--Adam
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Shields <shields at crosslink.net>
>To: dirk at power.net <dirk at power.net>
>Cc: nanog at merit.edu <nanog at merit.edu>; list at inet-access.net
><list at inet-access.net>
>Date: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 4:01 PM
>Subject: Re: Linux Router KIT
>
>
>In article <19981028100541.00359 at orlando.power.net>,
>dirk at power.net wrote:
>> Linux doesn't just kill Microsoft's NT and Solaris. It also eats
>> Cisco for lunch.
>
>This isn't true.  IOS does a lot more than just get packets from
>interface A to interface B.  (In terms of managability as well as
>functionality)
>--
>Shields, CrossLink.
>
>
>
>
-------
John Fraizer                      |    __   _
The System Administrator          |   / /  (_)__  __ ____  __ | The choice
mailto:John.Fraizer at EnterZone.Net |  / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / |  of a GNU
http://www.EnterZone.Net/         | /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ | Generation
                     A 486 is a terrible thing to waste...