To second the motion, I'm aware of at least one commercially available
routing/switching product that uses Linux. All routers use *some* sort of
OS. Many use Intel processors, and others use Motorola chips. No reason
why you could not make good product with a Linux kernel.
Besides, there's a serious project out there making Linux an embedded OS.
That plays well to the router crowd. Either write it to a flash card,
eeprom/romdisk, or be conservative and put it on a floppy. Yes, their
goals include making Linux fit on a floppy.
Rick
At 02:33 AM 02/27/2000 +0100, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
>John LeMay wrote:
>>I would disagree that Linux could be a major player in the router arena
>>if support was better. While it is true that large companies shy away
>>from Linux, I believe few, if any, organizations have considered using a
>>Linux based routing solution. Using Linux for web, file, print, or
>>application servers is a good idea, however having a router that is
>>built on a PC with hard disks, x86 CPU's (x86 would be the most common
>>used, I'm sure), and off the shelf nic's is not.
>
>Wrong assertion, I guess. It's absolutely a good idea. You can
>create at least 3 Linux routers for the price of every single Cisco router.
>This means that you can have a hot-spare router at every location, and still
>save huge amounts of money. And even if something breaks, it's going to
>be very cheap to repair it.
>
>> I'm certain any person
>>responsible for a large corporate infrastructure would sooner rely on a
>>product designed to perform routing functions.
>
>I can confirm that this assertion is false.
>--
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