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OS Router Challenges Proprietary Networking
Jane Walker writes "Dave Roberts talks about Vyatta's open source router and how open source technology may soon alter the landscape of enterprise networking." From the article: "Initially, we believe that the x86 PC running Vyatta -- given the range of hardware that's available in the PC world -- can basically replace the midrange of the router market; to use Cisco terminology and model numbers, simply because it's convenient shorthand, basically from the 2800 series to the 7200 series. There's a whole host of equivalent products from Nortel and Alcatel -- but essentially in that range. I wouldn't describe it as Cisco model numbers so much as T1 branch office to gigabit LAN product categories."
Advocate 1: "I work at Oracle by day, but work on Vyatta by night."
Advocate 2: "Well, I work at Cisco by day, but work on PostgreSQL by night"
[awkward pause]
Advocate 1: "Pistols or swords?"
- Adam L. Beberg - The Cosm Project - http://www.mithral.com/
I can plug damn near anything into a Cisco router....
Open source routers and pr0n sounds like a dangerous combination for you then.
I can plug damn near anything into a Cisco router....
And if you disable autonegotiate and set speed and duplex at fixed values, you might even get link.
Edith Keeler Must Die
I don't know what all the fuss is about Cisco routers. For my money, Black and Decker wins every time.
Pi Ran Out