Tim, Dan and Group Sounds like a successful project. Real world implementations of Linux as router/firewall/VPN are the bomb. Back in '96 I used Linux Router Project, 12 Pentium 133MHz boxes with 4xCD, dual 10/100NICs and Sangoma Wan-Pipe(CSU/DSU) cards to deploy a global firewall+Crypto Over IP Encapsulation (CIPE) VPN to 12 offices in 8 countries. Total cost: $19k versus the millions the commercial solutions would have cost.
Seeing as how many switching, routing and firewall boxes run some variant of Free Unix, Do It Yourself projects such as those listed below are a real inspiration to the user community and The Right Thing To Do!(tm) ROCK ON! chris On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 14:28, Tim Hammerquist wrote: > Jay MacDonald wrote: > > Cool: http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/07/23/1646215.shtml?tid=23 > > Funny. My term project for the Adv. Linux course at TMCC was > *just that*: replace routers/firewalls with linux+iptables to > offset the cost of upgrading a large organzation's LAN. > > > Any chance we can get Dan in to give a presentation? > > I'm all for it! Always good to hear experience from The Real > World(TM)[*], whatever that is. > > [*] The Real World is a registered trademark of The Open Group > and MTV, Inc., and it's content is licensed exclusively by the > Santa Cruz Operation. It was also invented by Al Gore and > originally conceived by Shirley Maclain in a previous life. It's > inclusion in this non-commercial correspondence is in no way > intended to incur the wrath of IP attorneys. > > ...but it will probably tick off somebody. > > Tim Hammerquist -- Christopher Neitzert http://www.neitzert.com/~chris 775.853.5314 - chris<at>neitzert(dot)com - GPG Key ID: 7DCC491B
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