-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Thomas wrote: > I hate clueless Linux-types! I've been told by some of those guys that > you're better off running cisco routers than Linux routers in anything > more than a home router.
I have been thoroughly unimpressed with Cisco routers. Especially the smaller ones. We have had some that just crash all the time. And our Cisco certified technicians tell us the router is overloaded. Cisco guys are always checking the cpu load and claiming the box is overloaded. Wh is that? It's a 1.5 Mb DSL LINE!!!! It's doing NAT, a GRE tunnel, and that's it! WTF is the problem!? I also dislike that it is so much more difficult to sniff traffic on a Cisco router as opposed to a Linux box which can run tcpdump, ethereal, ntop, whatever. The Cisco command line is a royal pain. I would love to be able to put our Cisco configs into Subversion. But no..."everything is a file" wasn't good enough for Cisco. I suspect the vast majority of routers out there aren't routing more than a few megabits of actual traffic. Sure you have a router on the end of every OC-12 etc. but those are the exception. And even in that case, the only thing a Linux box really lacks to match the performance is the hardware fast-path which requires special hardware/ASICS. But if you aren't pushing more packets per second the cpu can handle or more bandwidth than the bus can handle (on the order of 80,000pps and 80Mb/s I would say) you don't really need a Cisco. - -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCi4f89PIYKZYVAq0RAogfAJ95hIoEHz+1gC8C8yB+vSDHQb2Y4QCfedcB ty+SyJKkHVunwf4QUJvpu9A= =gX8Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
