Linked by Stefanos "Titanas" Kofopoulos on Tue 17th Dec 2002 06:32 UTC
Hundreds of debates, countless flames, innumerable passionate supporters, no limits, no ending lines, no result. The conflicts keep on going and going and going. It doesn't matter if it's Cisco's IOS, Microsoft's Windows, Suse's Linux or FreeBSD. People struggle to prove their
platform's superiority ignoring that an Operating System is just a tool focusing on specific needs.
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Sorry but a Linux/BSD box running FreeSco or Zebra is not like a Juniper/Cisco. There are reasons why ISPs run Cisco/Junipers and not linux/bsd routers and it's not that we love cisco..
If you have 1 T1, DSL or even a T3 and you have a few routes and you are not pushing much trafic. Of the Linux/BSD box can handle it.
If you have a couple of thousand routes and are running 2 routing protocols and your network spans 5+ routers then you go cisco.
If you are doing what I just said and your smallest circuit is a OC3 then you get a juniper.
We tried Zebra (which is the best routing software for PCs) and it cannot handle the massive amount of routes/packets/traffic that a cisco/Juniper can.
Also Juniper's OS was based on FREE BSD, but it is not Free BSD. It's been majorly reworked.