Linux Router's

[Tim Wunder]

Well, the problem is, I was assuming the OP wanted something for personal use, where you and Bill seem to be assuming it's for commercial use. I agree wholeheartedly that something along the lines of Bill's recommendation would be appropriate for a business. For a home user, I find it hard not to recommend freesco. 

BTW, a ghost image is not required. Freesco's don't use a hard drive. Sure, you should have a backup of the floppy disk used, and a spare NIC would be useful. The "PC" I'm using is nothing more than a mobo w/ and old P-100, a floppy and two NICs in an baby-AT case. And the P-100 is overkill for sharing my cable modem.

Tim

On 5/10/2002 7:40 AM, someone claiming to be Brian Witowski wrote:
> 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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>>
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