> I read the article in last month's Linux Journal about LEAF -vs- > Cisco but unfortunately, I don't think they came to any real > conclusions.
Opinions on this subject are in the (recent) archives of the mailing list. It could have been far more of an actual comparison if they would have liked it to have been. > I was particularly interested because I would like to > use LEAF (Bering in particular) at my company (and I was hoping the > article would provide some credible statistics)...but I'm afraid > management will sneer and "poo-poo" my decision to implement it. I > think they feel, like I'm sure other businesses feel, that because > they've heard their competitor Brand X uses a Cisco router (oooh, > ahhh), that it MUST be the smart thing to do. So, I thought I would > ask so many of you who probably know both of these products like the > "back of your hand", and probably use them on a daily basis. So...how > DOES Linux/LEAF compare to Cisco? Do you think that Linux/LEAF can > handle most business scenarios? I know Charles says that he uses > Dachstein at his businesses. What do you think are its limitations? > Other comments? Thank you as always. Before you start deploying LEAF routers in a production environment, make sure that *YOU* truly understand WHAT you are doing and HOW to do exactly what needs to be done. It can be rather easy to get over your head in this environment unless you realize all that needs to be done, the hardware requirements, and have setup machines for this environment before. Many of us have test networks to test and learn on, I would highly suggest this for any newcomers to expand their current knowledge of commercial networking. There are a couple of links that pretty much sum up my comparisons. To add to the links, LEAF generally doesn't include any application layer filtering that Cisco and Checkpoint routers *can* offer, however this filtering can be done easily on another Linux machine behind the firewall where IMHO this filtering belongs. http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/7232/2002/1/0/7709572/ http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=1739&group_id=13751 -- ~Lynn Avants aka Guitarlynn guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net http://leaf.sourceforge.net If linux isn't the answer, you've probably got the wrong question! ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
