[c-nsp] Older Cisco Routers - which one to go with?

[Seth Mattinen]

On 2/17/2011 12:10, Keegan Holley wrote:
> I wouldn't use the 2651 for much else than maybe a door-stop.  The 2801
> might not be able to do 20M ethernet depending on what else you are asking
> it to do.  Can you use a switch here?  If it's all ethernet than a 3560 or
> even a 3550/3750 would be fine.  They even have 8 port 3560's for cheap.
>  Also, I think the 2800 and 2600XM's were (mostly) hardware based.
> 

The 2800 and 3800 ISRs have hardware crypto built in (unless you order a
model without it), but otherwise they are just CPU and DRAM.

~Seth