OT: Trying to offload some new wireless network hardware

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Feb 2 16:33:33 UTC 2009


On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 09:35:16PM +0000, Peter wrote:
> Imnsho a P4 and a 'stack of NICs' will likely do better than any consumer grade
> box you can buy for money now. Otoh, if you would shop around for an older Cisco
> or other brand name business grade router, that would very likely fit the bill
> for the same money and work almost forever. A well used older model Cisco should
> be well under $100 and with some expert programming will very likely fulfill ALL
> your special packet routing needs, plus it's an all metal super rugged part that
> will last almost forever.

Cisco's are rugged?  Since when?  They generate heat like crazy, and
hate anything outside cool room temperature.  And getting firmware
updates to fix security problems is nearly imposible unless you pay for
a support contract.

Of course a P4 runs hot too, so it's probably no better.  An athlon or
P3 or something would be a lot nicer.

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Len Sorense
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