RE: alternative to Cisco routers

[John Nemeth]

On Jul 7,  4:07am, "Fowler, Robert J." wrote:
} 
} However it might be a good choice for someone who is building a home lab. It
} is much cheaper to piece together some computers and throw zebra on it than
} to buy several routers. I've never used Zebra but it sounds like if you had
} some existing equipment and wanted to expand on that, couldn't afford to buy
} another router but had some old PC's it would be the way to go, since
} speed/reliability wouldn't be a real factor in a home lab. Any thoughts?

     Although, you may learn something about the protocols, you won't
learn anything about real routers.  You definitely need to get hands on
with real routers.  Zebra could be used to simulate a secondary router
in a multi-router experiment, but it isn't sufficient by itself.

}-- End of excerpt from "Fowler, Robert J."

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