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Re: ADSL Router.



On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:26:24AM -0500, Bob Clark wrote:
> Why not let the 486 firewall box do the routing too, or is it your goal 
> to learn about commercial routers?  You can run your own subnet behind 
> the firewall and use iptables/masquerading to provide connectivity to 
> the internet for hosts on your private subnet.

If you want to learn about commercial-grade routing, you're still going to want
to do it with a Linux box.  They manage multiple connections much better (read:
they do) than those hinky little boxes, and once you get beyond something that
an old Linux box will handle, it's the $50k Cisco time.  W00t!

- Matt



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