Yeech, yet another expensive network appliance. Consider the cost of
this, weigh in the extra features (which most small ISPs don't really
need) you'ld see that the additional expense to get this product just
doesn't make sense when taken in the light that the basic functionality
is already in the stock linux kernel.
truly why is there a need to get a network appliance when the stock linux
kernel has advanced routing, ECM, multiple device load balancing, CBQ
packet shaping, and ipchains firewalling...all running on any common PC,
and even on a floppy!
I'm astounded at the way the marketing people of local resellers push
their network appliances to ISPs. Most especially the cache appliances
Inktomi and Cacheflow. To date all i see are marketing hard sell claims
that their product is this and that, but i've never seen them participate
in annual bake-offs, just to see how their product fares against its peers
in the industry. And the sad part is that ISPs actually consider these
marketing "pronouncements", even though there is virtually no information
that they are actually better than a squid-farm or the proxy solutions of
novell and microsoft (which by the way proved their worth in the latest
bake-off).
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Miguel A.L. Paraz wrote:
> http://www.radware.com has the "Linkproof" product which does load-balancing
> NAT. A really good Linux network programmer with time on his/her hands
> can clone this ;) Start with http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org.
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