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Re: Couple questions
> > You're right.
> > As for me - it betterr to by some simple cisco-router .
> > The price isn't the same, but very close and IMHO cisco
> > worth it.
>
> well, it may not be as fast, or flexible, or have open-source drivers, or
> save you an IP address, or....
>
Ira, Linux is great, but ...
Cisco definetely faster router that linux. It's dedicated for it and
does it's job pretty well. It quite flexible, can do NAT for you
and few other good things. It's not open-source, which is bad,
but quite understoodable .
Generally there is two aproaches for doing things.
One is using special peace of hardware for each
purpose - dedicated router in hardware, dedicated
firewall, dedicated NFS server and so on.
Second is using one or many general-purpose servers
(like Linux or SUN) for many things .
There's no absolutely truth (IMHO) in this case -
allmost any place uses both. Which is better for
you - decide for yourself
Meir