On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:26:24AM -0500, Bob Clark wrote: > Why not let the 486 firewall box do the routing too, or is it your goal > to learn about commercial routers? You can run your own subnet behind > the firewall and use iptables/masquerading to provide connectivity to > the internet for hosts on your private subnet.
If you want to learn about commercial-grade routing, you're still going to want to do it with a Linux box. They manage multiple connections much better (read: they do) than those hinky little boxes, and once you get beyond something that an old Linux box will handle, it's the $50k Cisco time. W00t! - Matt
