Router question

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On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 11:03:02AM -0800, Dusty wrote:
> When I sent my last post I assumed that the Linux box was going to also be a firewall, but you don't state that?  Do you really need the Linux router?  Why not just let the Cisco 25xx do all your routing? 
> 
  First, thanks for the respone Dusty, the Linux router is use for bandwidth management(changes were made since yesterday), I need to limit bandwidths to my subnets.  I found ET/BWMGR - Bandwidth Manager at http://www.etinc.com/, like what you said, it does bridging and looks like just taking up one ip, it's base OS is Linux and/or BSD. I am hoping to keep my flat network, else I have to update the DNS, last time took about 2 months, to make a long story short, it's a DoD network.  I think we are going get the license($695) only, I would like to get the rackmount unit for $3000, but the fy02 is tight.  I have to make a decision on BSD or Linux for this, so far I am heading toward BSD for some unknown reason, what do you think?  btw, the link is a P-t-P T1.

thanks