Well said Baldur.... For those who are movie buffs.. here is the snippet that visually summaries.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEkOT3IngMQ As to the knee jerk reaction to a server doing routing.... such folks tend to forget that Routers are purpose built servers....and most of the Internet Routing was originally done by servers (or main frames or minis) etc. :) Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: Support@Snappytelecom.net ----- Original Message -----
What I get from you guys is that in your opinion it is not possible to set up a small ISP without spending a ton on Juniper or Cisco. I am not buying that. Even if I did not have a clear limit on my capital, I would be looking at avoiding paying that kind of money, because in the end the money comes out of my own pocket.
Everybody have critical services running on servers. DHCP, DNS, Radius and so on are all on servers and you will be down if these services are down. What is with the knee jerk reaction for suggesting that the BGP daemon could also be run on a server? There seems to be many advantages of doing it this way, and not all of them are related to cost.
Regards,
Baldur