Everything that's old is new again

So, I just spent the morning replacing a linux computer that functions as a router with another linux computer that will function as a router. Sure, it appears on the surface that you're saving a lot of money by doing this. It's almost impossible to compare features between a linux system and a commercial hardware router. Then again, after doing this for a few years, and putting a few of these in mission critical applications, you stop looking at them as routers, and start thinking of them as 'the most important server pending the most inconvenient reboot or panic.' Needless to say, I have deployed many a high end hardware router in many an application, but the few linux 'routers' that are left are probably going to be getting the boot sometime soon as I simply cant have downtime as a result of cost savings. I'll try to fully justify this using numbers shortly.

-AJB