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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Campbell >>Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 9:39 PM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>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 >>-- >>INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC >>UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way >>FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; >>(206) 236-1676 >>URL: http://www.celestial.com/ >> >>``UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that >>would also stop you from doing clever things.'' -- Doug Gwyn >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
