Hey, how are things going? I missed you at NANOG, but I heard a rumor you were these even though you didn't do the presentation on Thursday - Also Sam Madani said he got voicemail from you and he paged you sometime on Thursday and again on Friday morning, I don't know if he actually got in touch. Also I talked with Dave Dukinfield, he said that there is finally an account manager working with you - anyway, I hope life is okay and not too crazy, and that if you did miss NANOG it was something innocuous.... dave At 9:15 AM 10/21/96, Nathan Stratton wrote:

On Mon, 21 Oct 1996 alex@relcom.eu.net wrote:

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(1) when PC-based router became out of memory, I have to add some more memory - I pay about 200$ for extra 16Mb of ram, and that's all;

Yep, right now I am using 64 megs.

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(2) when PC-based router became out of CPU, it can be upgraded to the faster CPU easy. Intel's power increases draqmatically every month, and I have'not pay extra 100,000$ for the new super/giga/huge-ROUTER (as 7513) - I pay new 1,500$ and get new PC with Pentium/200, for example. And I know there would be available better processor in next 6 month - and I would'not have to pay next 100,000$ (or I there have to pay new 20,000$ for the new CS4700, for example - why can't I change CPU in CS4500, or why can't I add extra 32Mb of the RAM into my CS4500, and WHY have I to pay 3,500$ for the 32Mb ram if this RAM costs 600$ on the free market???).

Yes, but you can't get the speed out of the PC. I don't care how fast your CPU is, it will be slower then port to port switching. Don't get me wrong, I am a big fan of PC routers. I think I am the only one with a PC router at MAE-East (will be upgraded to a NetStar or cisco in 4 days). I started Netrail when I was 18, and no one would give me big money and I wanted to peer at MAE-East and play with the big guys. I did not have the money to upgrade all of our 4000s to 7000s, so we built PC routers. I think it was the best thing we did.

Ok, now we are building a OC3 and DS3 backbone and a PC can't come close to the PPS a cisco or NetStar can. My only question is should I go with the NetStar/Cascade or just cisco network?

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