Well said, Bill. I have tried to make that point in the past and it simply escalated into a flame war. The same holds true for firewalls. Many argue its a 'cop out' to buy a black box solution when you can get Linux 'free'. Folks who aren't in the IT/IS services business simply don't realize of the implications of utilizing a relative non-standard solution. The reality is, you better have 2 old PC's, 4 old NIC's and a Ghost image of the original machine. Thats the only way you'll be able to get back on line in a time-line comparable to a black box solution. And at the end of the day, thats the only thing the 'brass' will notice.
Brian > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Campbell > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 9:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Linux Router's > > > 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.
