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>Why Linux for routing</H3>
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<p align="right"><strong>Answered By Mike Orr
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In LG#65 I read:
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<br>"Another thing this article does is raise the question, just because we
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can use Linux in a wide variety of routing situations, should we? Are
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you choosing a Linux router because it's the most appropriate solution
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for the task, or simply because "we're a Linux-only shop"? "
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Well... What are the choices? Basicly:
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<li>CISCO - expensive and involving commands which are unrelated to any
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other other task you do.
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<li> Also ran dedicated routers - less expensive but an ever changing sea of
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this month's best offer leaving you with a different web based configuration
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on virtually every router you will buy and if an interface card blows,
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they don't make them any more. If the system ever gets hacked - they
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don't provide updates, it is obsolete.
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<li>DOS based old PC - cheap but involving commands which are unrelated to any
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other other task you do. If an interface card blows, it is the same as
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every PC in your office and local PC store.
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<li>Linux based old PC - cheap and allowing you to use the same shell, editor
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etc which you use for every other computing task (assuming you are Linux based).
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If an interface card blows, it is the same as every PC in your office and
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local PC store.
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The Linux option has a lot going for it especially if you are an organisation
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which does not have a team only dedicated to routers, like large telcos do.
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Routing sits causing no problems for months, while you forget how to
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work on the router, and then when problems arrive it is panic stations,
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because nobody can work, clients are not being served and business is
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being lost.
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I run a Polish ISP with Linux and one CISCO router, which we bought because
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I was over ruled, because although the WAN card for Linux was cheaper,
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the CISCO dealer offered unbeatable financing. I don't see that changing soon.
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<P><STRONG>
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Yours
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<br>Ian
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> [Mike]
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You bring up some good points, but that does not invalidate the question.
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I'm not saying Linux *shouldn't* be used for routing, just that each
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organization needs to weigh the price-vs-performance-vs-maintainability
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factors for iteself. The situation I was thinking about (and perhaps
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it wasn't clear in the paragraph) was not a small, low-traffic
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network, for which Linux's price and maintainability certainly runs circles
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over proprietary systems, but rather an an enterprise-level,
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high-traffic situation. Is there an amount of thoroughput above which
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Linux routers are not (currently) scalable, a point at which Ciscos
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would be more economical? I don't know, but a netadmin in that situation
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would want to explore both options before making a decision.
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My point is not so much about Linux vs Cisco, but about jumping on the
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Linux bandwagon too quickly. We all know hundreds of companies that
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refused to consider any alternatives to buying NT servers, WINS servers,
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Novell servers, etc. The same can happen in the Linux world, if one
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refuses to consider an alternative to a Linux router more because it's
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politically incorrect than because of an actual comparision of price,
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performance and maintainability and how they would all affect your
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organization in its situation.
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