This is the advantages of PC. Hope you know disadvantages too -:)
To the argument that Cisco IOS is inherently easier or harder to configure ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -:) This is a joke... there is nothing more complex and orderless than IOS's config -:)
This is my last comment on IOS vs. Gated, but: Some things are super-elegant and thus easy to predict and use. Unix and its kernel and utilities is. NT/Windows/Mac from the programming side are not. Bay is not. Proteon is not. Gated (for me, so far) is not. Microrouters are not. Morningstars are/(?were?). Livingstons are not. Now, I can program all of the above from memory. But I actually do find IOS smoother and easier to use and adopt new features in. I actually took to IOS fairly quickly, I believe. I know I took to it much faster than I did to gated, because I spent 20 hours and couldn't get gated working due to a total lack of *good* docs. 6-9 months ago the most common question on the gated lists was "can anyone post SOME working configuration"?
Aleksei Roudnev, Network Operations Center, Relcom, Moscow
I can only speak for myself, of course. Avi