OT: Trying to offload some new wireless network hardware

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.
>
>   

Take a look at Adtran.  I haven't noticed them running hot and updates
are free.  All you have to do is download & install them.  Adtran's AOS
is very similar to IOS.



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