Well said Baldur.... For those who are movie buffs.. here is the snippet that visually summaries..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEkOT3IngMQ As to the knee jerk reaction to a server doing routing.... such folks tend to forget that Routers are purpose built servers....and most of the Internet Routing was originally done by servers (or main frames or minis) etc. :) Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: supp...@snappytelecom.net ----- Original Message ----- > What I get from you guys is that in your opinion it is not possible to set > up a small ISP without spending a ton on Juniper or Cisco. I am not buying > that. Even if I did not have a clear limit on my capital, I would be > looking at avoiding paying that kind of money, because in the end the money > comes out of my own pocket. > > Everybody have critical services running on servers. DHCP, DNS, Radius and > so on are all on servers and you will be down if these services are down. > What is with the knee jerk reaction for suggesting that the BGP daemon > could also be run on a server? There seems to be many advantages of doing > it this way, and not all of them are related to cost. > > Regards, > > Baldur >
