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[Roy Vestal]

+1

Thomas C. Meggs wrote:

> Tanner Lovelace wrote:
>
>> Roy, correct me if I'm wrong, but one of those Linksys or Netgear
>> cable/dsl routers with a four port switch would probably do the
>> same thing as the portable firewall and you could probably just
>> plug it in and go. Actually, I believe they even have that with
>> included wireless which would be even better because then we'd just 
>> need the one box to do everything. :-)
>
>
> The only thing that occurs to me about that is just the demonstration 
> factor. If the NAT box you bring around to meetings and install fests 
> actually runs Linux, it shows people the extent of what one can do 
> with a free UNIX. From this perspective, it may be advantageous to 
> have the portable firewall be an actual computer, which could also be 
> a demo computer. One thing that comes to mind immediatly is to get one 
> of the earlier models of the Shuttle XPC. They have a PCI slot and are 
> nicely small and luggable. I imagine you could get the 
> motherboard/case + PCI 802.11b card for under $200, and finding a 
> processor and disk from some of the PCs that are 'kicking around' 
> without rack mount cases probably wouldn't be that hard as well.
>
> At any rate, it's just a thought. Why buy a Netgear or Linksys 
> 'router' when you can do it with Linux and have a machine ready to 
> demo with as well?
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
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