Re: Pros and Cons of Using an Old Box as a Router

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Author: FoulDragon@aol.com
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Pros and Cons of Using an Old Box as a Router
In a message dated 17.Feb.05 15:13:51 US Mountain Standard Time,
writes:
I am sure there are more but those are my reasons for the old box. But fan
noise, power consumption, and time may easily tip the scales toward an
appliance solution
I'm interested that nobody's done an appliance package. SOmeone somewhere
has sky-high piles of second hand network cards and P200 systems. Throw a
specialised *BSD install in, sell it as a "ultimate home router" for $75 or $100,
and you've gotten way more value of the machines than they'd get as desktop
comps (I recall a local shops selling that sort of box, like six months or a year
ago, at "3 for 100")