[CTS] Re: DSL Modem
- From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhb57@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 19:48:13 -0500
Overkill is good if you got it free from some corp's dumpster :-D
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> > Amen on that - changed my share of them in small business that had no
> > need for them other than someone made a killing on selling and
> > installing it when (as you mention) a cheapo Pentium/PII machine (many
> > times their file server works well) and doing all the
> > sharing/routing/firewall through it. I'm not going to suggest Hal do
> > that as I don't know their specifics at that site. I've only had one
> > that I absolutely had to reinstall a replacement Cisco - part of a 3rd
> > party job and the workorder specified remove old - install and setup
> > new. Easy $350 labor on that since it took a while to determine that the
> > Cisco router was at fault not letting anything on the outside talk and
> > wouldn't take remote SNMP commands either.
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> Actually, even a PII is overkill. The box we're using here is a Cyrix 166
> with 32MB of ram (of which only 4-6 MB are ever actually needed), and it
> firewalls, shapes packets, and is an ethernet bridge, so I didn't even
> need to modify the net topology to install it, just drop it in line.
>
> I'm actually looking for a business partner with connections to start
> selling these things. $200 in hardware, the market will probably support
> a $1200 price tag.
>
> John
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