[address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #gamma IPv6 Initial Allocation Criteria

On 5-apr-05, at 15:19, Daniel Roesen wrote:

>> I'm not sure what the cheapest router is that can handle a full table
>> today, but I'm pretty sure it's more expensive than what one that 
>> could
>> 10 years ago cost then (ie a Cisco 2501).

> A 50-EUR-off-Ebay PC can do that easily.

As Randy is fond of saying: I invite my competitors to do this.

My experience with PC hardware routers is that they're fast and 
powerful, and fail 10 times as often as "real" routers so all the money 
you save on hardware is eaten up by operational expenses.

> And even if you go to the
> "off-the-shelf-real-routers" (actually not "routers", but "optimized
> forwarders with routing component") then you can have them quite
> cheaply... looking at JNPR J-Series and Cisco 1800 series that should
> be doable well below 2000 EUR.

> I doubt that the 2501 was much less expensive back then. :-)

It was around that price.

Ok I wasn't aware of the 1800 but this looks like a nice entry level 
BGP box.