They even had one that was selling for $50, with a $50 rebate a couple of years 
ago.  Made a dandy Christmas present.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
> Alan Altmark
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 2:23 PM
> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Linux on Intel;
> 
> 
> On Friday, 02/10/2006 at 12:36 EST, David Andrews 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> > Oh yes... Belkin.  These are the people who sold a router that
> > periodically hijacked your port 80 traffic and redirected 
> it to their
> > own adservers.  See:
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/07/help_my_belkin_router/
> > 
> > "The router would grab a random HTTP connection every
> > eight hours and redirect it to Belkin?s (push) advertised
> > web page."
> > 
> > Perhaps they make fine equipment.  But I won't buy any.
> 
> In the interest of full disclosure and fairness, that was more than 2 
> years ago and Belkin responded a mere 4 days later, removing the 
> redirection.
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/11/belkin_disables_router
_spamming_feature/

And you're right, Belkin makes fine routers.

Alan
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