I agree completely... for less than the cost of a frac-ds3 you can get 10 or 100 Mbps Metro Ethernet circuits from various US RBOCS (I use Bellsouth as an example, not sure who the RBOC in Chicago is.) Most of them allow upgrading to 1Gig. We use a few of them and they are great... we're never going back to DSx or OCx circuits unless absolutely necessary.
Dan Farrell > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jeffrey C. Ollie > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 8:43 PM > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: openbsd on cisco hardware? > > On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 15:12 -0600, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > > > > bingo! i wanted to see if i could use a 2620 i had laying around for its > T1 > line > > card and this is why i didn't expect it to be possible. > > > > the ISP here at work supplies a couple T1 lines which terminate into > 1721s > and > > i'd very much like to remove all cisco gear from the network. there are > cisco > > 7200s as edge routers at the ISP. anybody got advice on the cheapest way > to > > connect to such routers? the sangoma, accoom, etc. cards are pretty > pricey. > > The cheapest way that I can think of would be to get your ISP to provide > you some sort of Metro Ethernet or Ethernet over TDM solution. That way > your interface to the Internet is an Ethernet port and it's the ISP's > responsibility to deal with T1 circuits or whatever. > > Jeff > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature > which had a name of signature.asc]
