No subject

deduction as an expense.  The spare or new hardware you use, which may
or may not be already listed as an asset, will have a short term tax
benefit of the cost of that hardware, which if it's a PC class machine
maybe $1000 (to keep it simple) depreciated over 5 years.  If you buy
a dedicated piece of hardware for the purpose at $3000 - $5000
(estimating), you have just transferred the bulk of the cost from
being your labor (a one time expense on the books) to a longer term
asset (price over 5 years against tax liability), which can be very
business attractive during a time of anticipated growth in revenue.

But, I ramble.

The point is, collect your data and plan it out before making any
hasty decisions one way or the other.

Hope this even remotely helped.

Brad

On Nov 20, 2007 11:24 AM, Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> OK, my turn to ask a question.  I have a situation where our firewall (seven
> or more years old) is no longer supported and it has been losing connections
> on any box that I upgrade to a 2.6 kernel from a 2.4.  I have Netscreen 100
> firewalls and can't even get firmware updates.
>
> So, the question that I post to the group:
> I have a fairly fast Internet connection to Vaspian.  I have an environment
> with 30+ servers and less than 10 workstations that need to be connected.  I
> need to be able to have the web servers (about 6 for the moment) accessible
> on the Internet but I have to be able to use stateful NAT to be able to have
> the firewall point to several web servers for a single IP address for load
> balancing, etc.  If the firewall did some monitoring to determine that a web
> server has failed and can remove it from the  pool, that would be a bonus.
>
> I intend to start monitoring the servers with Nagios so maybe Nagios could
> be used to control the web server pools.
>
> I have actually thought about building a Linux firewall to do all of this,
> using shorewall but I don't know about the server pool thing.  I haven't
> researched that at all.
>
> So, I'm soliciting opinions.  I need to know as many options as I can so
> that I can make an intelligent decision on this.  Note that we're expecting
> significant growth in our traffic, here.  As always, cheaper is better.
>
> Thanks...
>
> Cheers!
>
> Bob
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