[H-GEN] Smoothwall dialling problem

[Robert Stanford]

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On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 14:19, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:

> Sarcasm aside, spare PCs are a dime a dozen.  A 486 can be had for a
> song if it doesn't need to come with a monitor, mouse, keyboard, or
> disk drive.  All you really need is a NIC and a floppy disk (or a
> CD-ROM drive if you like).

Floppy disks are and unreal way to make a cheap router with read only
media. It realy is amazing how reliable a floppy disk left in its drive
can be. My earlier comments about Smoothwall sucking are well founded
due to having infinite more problems via 2 smoothwall vs 67 floppy based
routers [1]. i.e. the floppy based ones have never had a problem. [2]
The problems on the Smoothwall machines were thankfully easy to fix.

[1] 3/0 = infinity
[2] Barring things like people changing their ISP logon or password.
-- 
Robert Stanford <rob at rotapile.com>




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