[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the spirit of chiming in without having anything useful to say...
> But why use a new, powerful computer for that? > If you have other tasks for the computer, that really make > use of it's power, you might encounter software problems > or update issues that might take down that computer on > occasion... during which time your routing function goes > away for the entire building. I'm going to chime in and say it's a capital idea to run everything through linux, since our house has been run that way since the mid 1990s. If you've got nice powerful linux systems that are up 24/7, I don't see the need for an extra little box to do just the routing. There is a point there, about the possibility of downtime when the system is down for hardware maintenance or booted to load a new kernel, but in practice for us, that can be managed fairly easily. We used to route everything through my main workstation, so it was doing routing/firewall, dns, smtp in addition to gaming/multimedia, but I eventually decided to separate this out and now the routing/firewall/vpn/dns/dhcp functions are on a smallish old celeron, the smtp, webmail, spam quarantine and websites are on a little larger machine, our gaming/multimedia are newish suse boxes, and we have a couple of wireless access points for the various macs around the house and for visitors. I guess there are pros and cons for each approach, but using linux as gateway is one way to plunge in with both feet. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
