On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 02:22:28PM -0400, Tim Wunder wrote: ... >Hmmm... cheap=$180? For a simple router? Suppose the OP has an old PC >laying around doing nothing that costs $0, and a coupla 10 MB NICs that >cost $0. Is spending $180 still cheap?
It is if they're paying me $150/hour to do the work. It's also very expensive for a business if they're offline for some reason because the old hardware goes south on them. As I said in my original post, if you're doing it as a hobby, or for the educational value, then building a router out of old parts works fine. Setting up LRP routers is an educational experience, particularly if you want to run something out of the ordinary. On the other hand, if I have a customer who needs to connect their employees to their office with a VPN, it's far easier to use one of these boxes which they can configure themselves with a few minutes phone conversation, and it Just Works(tm). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.'' -- Doug Gwyn _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
