19 Feb
2009
19 Feb
'09
9:37 a.m.
Not much really, besides your personal preference and the configurability of the device (will maintaining some semblance of sanity), there are some very nice custom linux based appliances out there e.g. vyatta routers, which boast 10 times throughput of Cisco (2800 series) routers, however it all comes down to what you want to do. -----Original Message----- From: Deric Kwok [mailto:deric.kwok2000@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:30 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: real hardware router VS linux router Hi All Actually, what is the different hardware router VS linux router? Have you had experience to compare real router eg: cisco VS linux router? eg: streaming speed... tcp / udp Thank you for your information