What is the difference between a gateway on ubuntu and a hardware router, for example cisko ea6700?

Question

Computer networks

A weak machine appeared just under ubuntu, there is a desire to try to raise the ubuntu-server and make a gateway out of it. But there is a good cisco router that distributes the Internet. Actually the question is, is it necessary to allocate a car or can I use a router?

Answer 1

What is the difference between a gateway on ubuntu and a hardware router, for example cisko ea6700?

Appearance, functionality and performance.

Actually the question is, is it necessary to allocate a car or can I use a router?

Well, I don’t know if you have any obligations to counterparties in this regard, if there are no such obligations, you can use the router.

Answer 2

It is definitely not worth changing a tsiska for a bubuntu in this place.