Jerry,
If you reread the post, he's getting a 4 port 10/100 hub INTERNAL to the
firewall. Since that runs ~US$75 or thereabouts, he's only paying about
$75 for the firewall that way. You suggest a $30 nic, and the sacrifice
of the Pentium 200... I say, GO FOR IT. I'd rather keep the Pentium as
a separate machine for the $45 cost that I would have, since the Firewall
is going to be beaten on. That way, you don't have the overhead on the
machine of the scanners, you don't have to worry about failure on the
Pentium taking you down, etc.
Bill Ward
-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Winegarden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 2:38 PM
To: William W. Austin
Subject: Re: DSL firewall/router
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, William W. Austin wrote:
> I am getting ready to set up a firewall between my DSL provider and my lan
at
> home (nothing big -- 3 machines there), and have been planning to use an
old
> 200Mhz pentium machine as the firewall box. However, this weekend I saw
some
> info on a Linksys EtherFast Cable/DSL Router, model # BEFSR41.
>
> Its feature list looks impressive, and the street price is somewhere down
around
> 150-160 as best I can figure. The box is a 4-port hub/router with the
firewall
> built in, and it supports 10/100 Mbit lan on the local side.
>
> The only real drawbacks I can discern so far are that many of the advanced
> features are not supported except through reading the manual (what a
concept: a
> manual with information :-) [no hassle], and that the only OS's they
really know
> about are apparently Win95/98/NT (2000? -- I'm not sure).
>
> Anyway, does anyone have any experience with this box -- it looks awfully
> attractive at this price... Any drawbacks? Any problems?
Any drawbacks to such a proprietary box? LOTS!!!
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