[olug] Community Colo Project

[Kenny Kant]

Ok now I have to ask where you get all this cheap Cisco stuff.  I would  
be interested in a cheap 871 and/or  3600 series router.  ;)

Kenny



Phil Brutsche wrote:
> James Ringler wrote:
>   
>> I have 15 John Deere dealerships from Nebraska to Arizona all
>> interconnected with Vyatta 514 appliances..    It's more stable than
>> when we had 10 year old PIX's and a few 2600's and have a much larger
>> feature set.  
>>     
>
> The PIXes I can understand, they do a lot of weird Cisco-proprietary
> crap that make simple things hard and the devices unreliable. ASAs and
> PIXes running v7 or newer are a little better in that regard.
>
> I don't use 'em and favor Cisco 1711s, 851s and 871s. Faster and - for
> me - cost the same (under $100, or free with a bad switch port ;)
>
> 2600s are pretty solid devices; I bet if you had taken the PIXes out and
> replaced them with the above things would have been more reliable.
>
>   
>> The Vyatta is amazing..  I can't stress it enough.   The paid support is
>> second to none.  If you've done anything in cisco, the command structure
>> is similar, but makes more sense.  
>>     
>
> Looking at the manual, the command structure is only IOS-like in that it
> uses a command line. It has more in common with CatOS or Extreme Networks.
>
> IMO they would have been better off incorporating something like nsh
> (http://www.nmedia.net/nsh/) somehow.
>
>