2008/10/28 Dave Kempe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Amos Shapira wrote: >> >> We already have the xDSL modems. >> I think what I need is an Ethernet-connected box which can copy bits >> around more efficiently than the TZ170. > > hate to be obvious about it and all, but have you considered a linux box?
Yes, and even my boss asked this and actually over a year ago I designed such an option (with two boxes and fail-over). We might even have enough spare hardware to do that (plus buy some NIC's) but: 1. It'll take more time and manpower to design and execute than finding a bolted device designed to do just that. Resources we don't have (we are busy deploying customer-facing servers). 2. A Linux box will be one of the older boxes with a disk drive and other parts which can fail, something we can't afford for such a central piece of our network. So I easily convinced my boss it's worth looking for a $2k box instead, as much as it would be fun to prove to all the non-believers that linux is great(TM) (there are a few left in the company, though we are slowly converting them - e.g. our dev leader just installed Ubuntu on the new laptop he got from work and intends to erase Vista completely from it :). Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
