[leaf-user] What's the difference between LEAF and hardware router?

2004-02-26 Thread joah moat
I was just wondering, what is the difference between having a LEAF box and just going out and buying a hardware router for fifty bucks. _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/

Re: [leaf-user] What's the difference between LEAF and hardware router?

2004-02-26 Thread Ben Wang
That hardware router for 50 bucks isn't and doesn't have the necessary flexibility for a very large number of situations. Oh, and did I mention VPN? :D I've recently switched my client from a hardware D-Link router to a bering system using a specialised designed hardware with 4 ethernet contro

Re: [leaf-user] What's the difference between LEAF and hardware router?

2004-02-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 04:11 AM 2/27/2004 +, joah moat wrote: I was just wondering, what is the difference between having a LEAF box and just going out and buying a hardware router for fifty bucks. This question is harder to answer than it used to be because, honestly, the cheap routers have gotten better. Once,

Re: [leaf-user] What's the difference between LEAF and hardware router?

2004-02-27 Thread Andrea Montefusco
joah moat wrote: I was just wondering, what is the difference between having a LEAF box and just going out and buying a hardware router for fifty bucks. Difference ? performance. With Bering you can, by a careful hw selection, easily obtain a 10Mb/s + router/firewall. The fifty-bucks-things are

Re: [leaf-user] What's the difference between LEAF and hardware router?

2004-02-27 Thread Cokey de Percin
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 23:11, joah moat wrote: > I was just wondering, what is the difference between having a LEAF box and > just going out and buying a hardware router for fifty bucks. > > _ Don't disagree with anything said previo

RE: [leaf-user] What's the difference between LEAF and hardware router?

2004-02-28 Thread joah moat
A few days ago I posted: I was just wondering, what is the difference between having a LEAF box and just going out and buying a hardware router for fifty bucks. I have since received many valuable replies. I did receive one reply from a gentleman that I would like to post here for the LEAF a

RE:[leaf-user] What's the difference between LEAF and hardware router?

2004-02-28 Thread joah moat
I appreciate all the input I've received for this thread. I have had a chance to put things into my own perspective. I believe the greatest advantage LEAF has over a generic routers IS awareness. In principle, most of us would prefer to have a relative awareness of our surrounding: be it at h