Eric:
Hello! Some quick replies:
> > What this "bundled gateway" market needs, obviously,
> > is a gateway box that costs $50 to build because it uses LEAF
> > and a low-low-end 486: the casing is more expensive than the
> > content.
>
> When do we build it ;)
Yeah, no kidding. :) Do we take checks yet?
> I followed the list of a german variant with a 2.0 kernel and Least
> cost routing for some time but a good windows remote control and
> configuration utility.There was moderate trafic. As this adress was
> published in an article of Chip (computing) in combination with an
> article about insecurity in the web, the traffic became so high that
> i canceled my subscription :) .
No news sells like bad news. :)
> in other words, the jacks don't know that they need it. The ISP only
> want them to have it as long as it doesn't cost them and it is easy
> to maintain and configurate.
Right, exactly. The ISPs will not want these LEAF boxes
if they think it's going to make the ISP's life worse. And as
Jack Coates pointed out, the ISPs will be fundamentally against
having a "big firewall server", like an out-of-the-box RedHat
machine, running many exploitable services.
-Scott
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