Will you please point out other router than cisco which has EIGRP ? My point exactly.
Ah, so you are using _only_ cisco in your network ? Tough!
What kind of interface do you want ? You have async (multiport async), sync, ethernet, fddi and now atm is coming. BTW, do you get arcnet with cisco ? :-)
HSSI?
I'm sure that the moment someone will have a reasonably priced card for a PC and make specs available, linux will support it (probably BSD as well).
IPX and appletalk have been there for a _long_ time. There is also a Linux DECNET project. Great, another *project*.
... for a protocol that everyone *uses* :-)
Also, for a long time, Linux had a hard time with lots or routes.
Define lots. You want full BGP table in a PC router ? Why :) ?
Isn't that the crux of the conversation here?
No ?! Point being that a PC router (eventually running linux) can be more than successfully used as a low-to-middle end router, at very good value for money. Anything more than this looks a bit absurd to me ... If I have the money to pay for multiple transit providers, I most certainly have the money for a 4500 or more (as in real router) ... And BTW, I didn't imply that a linux box has troubles with many routes, but I never tested it myself. But once I read the source code for route.c and I don't think the number of installed routes is an issue.
... Thus, omre reason to not use a PC for routing..
PCs simply were not built for forwarding packets and fast I/O. Again, thanks for agreeing.
But I don't :-) I just think they should not be used for high-performance stuff, but perform just fine as long as you know what to expect.
Of course a Linux/PC will never beat a cisco :-) but the cost is sometimes an order of magnitude lower for roughly the same performance. Not since the 2600 and 3600 have been released.
Fine, replace "an order of magnitude" with "a lot cheaper" and you're still close enough :-) However, we're beating a dead horse. I think we both realize what can and can't be done with a PC router. It's just that you were overly criticizing Linux as a router without being at least informed and I felt an urge to react because I'm a happy linux user :-)) Cheers, -- Matei CONOVICI, cmatei@roedu.net