Linux based routers just can not compete with Cisco/Lucent/Nortel(bay) routers since they have almost no usefull network interfaces. How with a linux router can you deal with any large network connections? linux routers work just fine in a handful of situations, hell cabletron switches are much better than cisco switches, but cisco has as much marketshare as they do becouse they have a HUGE productline and they fit almost everyones networking needs. You can build anything from a 56k network to a OC48 sonet system using cisco (and some cerent) equipment. with linux you can build a firewall, a T1 router, a 56k router, and an ethernet router (tho don't try gig-ethernet and expect to push anywhere near 1000mbits)
I'm assuming you mean Cisco Powered Network, to qualify as a CPN the network has to be 80% cisco, they must purchase 5 million worth of gear a year and they must actively be training their staff on cisco equipment. Having spent the better part of the last decade building networks, I've yet to see cisco blame a problem on other peoples hardware before checking to make sure it actualy is another vendors hardware at fault. the discount structure with cisco isn't even worth looking at. unless you are buying 10million or more a year you can get better pricing from a reseller and as anyone who has any experiance purchasing things knows, as long as you have the cash, you can buy anything you want. a companys relationship with cisco can suck hard and they can still get equipment at deep discounts, they just need to buy through a reseller.
even a mostly clueless network admin will pick their own IOS for their routers, cisco has a habit of installing whatever is their current IOS of the day on whatever you buy. if your network is built using the same routers it would seem to be a good idea to run the same IOS on all of them. cisco can pre-install them for you if you can't be bothered to tftp a new image, but please - you can't blame an outage caused by admin incompitance on cisco pre-loading a buggy software image.
Uh huh. What if you want to run Photoshop, some games or give a computer to your grandmother The gimp is better then photoshop by a good margin already. My mother who bairly knows where the on button is, runs linux. And what more then quake do you need to play?:-)
A single PII 450/512k for 5k doesnt seem like much of a deal. I just priced a Dual PIII Xeon/512k with 512megs ram, LVD drives, 10/100 ethernet. costs alittle under 5k. Me thinks the numbers look diffrent when you throw in a 2nd cpu and a big chunk of ram.
as of August 30th Gates owned 551,633,542 shares of MS stock, in the last year he sold 18,515,000 shares of stock. He also gave away 5.3million shares in the last year.. he is clearly trying to get some money out of his sinking ship...
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tt++ is the way to go for a *nix client.
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You really should be using it to play on my mud, which has been around for the last 9 years. It's at mud.theuw.net 5000
Since I've got a low usernumber you clearly should listen to my advice
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doesn't that seem a bit odd?
compaq will :-)
Linux based routers just can not compete with Cisco/Lucent/Nortel(bay) routers since they have almost no usefull network interfaces. How with a linux router can you deal with any large network connections? linux routers work just fine in a handful of situations, hell cabletron switches are much better than cisco switches, but cisco has as much marketshare as they do becouse they have a HUGE productline and they fit almost everyones networking needs. You can build anything from a 56k network to a OC48 sonet system using cisco (and some cerent) equipment. with linux you can build a firewall, a T1 router, a 56k router, and an ethernet router (tho don't try gig-ethernet and expect to push anywhere near 1000mbits)
I'm assuming you mean Cisco Powered Network, to qualify as a CPN the network has to be 80% cisco, they must purchase 5 million worth of gear a year and they must actively be training their staff on cisco equipment. Having spent the better part of the last decade building networks, I've yet to see cisco blame a problem on other peoples hardware before checking to make sure it actualy is another vendors hardware at fault. the discount structure with cisco isn't even worth looking at. unless you are buying 10million or more a year you can get better pricing from a reseller and as anyone who has any experiance purchasing things knows, as long as you have the cash, you can buy anything you want. a companys relationship with cisco can suck hard and they can still get equipment at deep discounts, they just need to buy through a reseller.
even a mostly clueless network admin will pick their own IOS for their routers, cisco has a habit of installing whatever is their current IOS of the day on whatever you buy. if your network is built using the same routers it would seem to be a good idea to run the same IOS on all of them. cisco can pre-install them for you if you can't be bothered to tftp a new image, but please - you can't blame an outage caused by admin incompitance on cisco pre-loading a buggy software image.
Uh huh. What if you want to run Photoshop, some games or give a computer to your grandmother :-)
The gimp is better then photoshop by a good margin already.
My mother who bairly knows where the on button is, runs linux.
And what more then quake do you need to play?
>Uh huh. What if you want to run Photoshop, some games or give a
>computer to your grandmother
The gimp. My mother who bairly knows where the on button is, runs linux.
I prefer my Blue Axe of Learning[tm]
A single PII 450/512k for 5k doesnt seem like much of a deal. I just priced a Dual PIII Xeon/512k with 512megs ram, LVD drives, 10/100 ethernet. costs alittle under 5k. Me thinks the numbers look diffrent when you throw in a 2nd cpu and a big chunk of ram.
as of August 30th Gates owned 551,633,542 shares of MS stock, in the last year he sold 18,515,000 shares of stock. He also gave away 5.3million shares in the last year.. he is clearly trying to get some money out of his sinking ship...
What exactly do you think the halt/reboot/shutdown commands do?