Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 15:39:49 -0400 From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) To: Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about Cisco 2503i price Message-ID: <199608011939.PAA22482@etinc.com>
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> > >On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Dennis wrote: > >> Your numbers are high (should be around $1600), but you're also getting a >> server for nothing that you can add an ethernet, or upgrade to 100Mbs, >> and it has 3 times the horsepower >> >> ........you'll also need the cisco mem upgrade to do anything useful...... > > You can always get the Cisco 2501 on a PC Card with 4 megs of RAM >for about $500 and just use any old 8088 PC since all it needs is the >power from the slot... As you can program it via the Serial Port on the >card... But the only thing good about a Cisco 2501 is its perceived reliability and "no moving parts". Their O/S isnt so great that I'd want to put it in a PC...you're much better off with unix in that case.... Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX
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