Linux Router's

[Brian Witowski]

Well said, Bill.  I have tried to make that point in the past and it simply
escalated into a flame war.  The same holds true for firewalls.  Many argue
its a 'cop out' to buy a black box solution when you can get Linux 'free'.
Folks who aren't in the IT/IS services business simply don't realize of the
implications of utilizing a relative non-standard solution.  The reality is,
you better have 2 old PC's, 4 old NIC's and a Ghost image of the original
machine.  Thats the only way you'll be able to get back on line in a
time-line comparable to a black box solution.  And at the end of the day,
thats the only thing the 'brass' will notice.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-users-admin at linux-sxs.org
> [mailto:linux-users-admin at linux-sxs.org]On Behalf Of Bill Campbell
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 9:39 PM
> To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
> Subject: Re: Linux Router's
>
>
> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 02:22:28PM -0400, Tim Wunder wrote:
> ...
>
> >Hmmm... cheap=$180? For a simple router? Suppose the OP has an old PC
> >laying around doing nothing that costs $0, and a coupla 10 MB NICs that
> >cost $0. Is spending $180 still cheap?
>
> It is if they're paying me $150/hour to do the work.  It's also very
> expensive for a business if they're offline for some reason
> because the old
> hardware goes south on them.
>
> As I said in my original post, if you're doing it as a hobby, or for the
> educational value, then building a router out of old parts works fine.
> Setting up LRP routers is an educational experience, particularly if you
> want to run something out of the ordinary.  On the other hand, if I have a
> customer who needs to connect their employees to their office with a VPN,
> it's far easier to use one of these boxes which they can configure
> themselves with a few minutes phone conversation, and it Just Works(tm).
>
> Bill
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