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For your curiosity... It's not my choice.
The router is not our, it's a rental. And it's going to be cheaper to
install a ing old machine with Linux on it instead of buying the
router.... No comment please.
Scouby
At 12:22 2002-04-29 -0600, you wrote:
Eric,
Why are you replacing a Cisco 2600? (just out of curiosity). If I was
to get serious with it, I'd install mandrake 8.2 on the linux box and have
FreeSWAN for your VPN solution :)
Vasiliy Boulytchev
Colorado Information Technologies Inc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Daigneault" <scouby@xxxxxxxx>
To: <netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:54 AM
Subject: Cisco 2600 replacement
> Hi everyone,
> Soon, I will replace a Cisco 2600 by a Linux Box. I want to use Netfilter
> to have some feedback of the traffic on the machine. I know that basicly,
> Netfilter is use for security purposes, but i'm sure it can be veryuseful
> in giving some feedback on plain routing.
>
> First, I want to know if anyone ever did that and a few tip would be
> appreciated ???? And if it's worth it ?? of course.
>
> Then, off-topic unfortunatly, if someone ever did that switch, is there
> anything I MUST know about the job a cisco router's doing compare to a
> linuxbox. Don't tell me that I have to know the routing table.... I'm not
> that stupid :-) But just some stuf that I might forget ???
> Thanks...
>
> P.S. I will also put a good traffic monitor on the box... The concept of
> Netfilter is just to add some feed back.
>
> Scouby
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