Routers, Switchers, and all that stuff

[Cyber Source]

My shop here has 7 pc's that are always running, they are all servers 
and my office pc, with 1 dsl modem and 3 switches. At your calculations, 
I would be at $175 per month, just for the pc's. I have outside lights 
that are on all night, a tv that's on all night (always fall asleep 
watchin it) and the normal other electrical usages. My electric bills 
average $150 a month, and that's in the winter, just looked at the bill. 
Most of these pc's are running multilple scsi drives, etc, with at least 
300 watt power supplies. Anywho, I would think the $25 per month 
estimate would be high to say the least, especially for an old box with 
a small power supply and nothing in it. The power consumption might be a 
hair more than the little router box but I had one here, for a very 
short bit, that quickly got tossed.

Mark Musone wrote:

> for home use, I'm a big fan of linksys..
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> yes, you can do more stuff with a linux box, but it all depends on 
> just what you need to do. one thing to keep in mind is the cost. you 
> can get a dsl router box for like $20 nowdays, so it's much cheaper 
> than even an old pc.and most importantly, I'm assuming you are going 
> to have it on 24/7...
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> a typical PC will cost you about $25/month for power.
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> a small router box will cost about $5/month for power.
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> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] *On 
> Behalf Of *Cyber Source
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:21 AM
> *To:* nflug at nflug.org
> *Subject:* Re: Routers, Switchers, and all that stuff
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> Bob Meyer has made me a couple of extremely reliable routers with old 
> pc's running Mandrake and Shorewall (comes with the Mandrake distro). 
> I can't tell you how much better the performance is from them little 
> router boxes, and FAR better hack protection. All you need is an old 
> pc with about 32mb of ram.
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> TheCactusKid Cactus wrote:
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> Hi, you'all
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> I've got DSL and would like to get a Router/Switcher with NAT 
> Firewall, ( Gateway, VPN, if needed??? ) That can do IP Masquerade, so 
> on and so forth. In other words with all the bells and whistles.
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> I know vary little on the matter other than from what I've read. Have 
> vary little hands on experience, but I will do better than trial by fire!
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> Though I would rather get the one for dummies model. You know the type 
> that ya stick in the CD and it does all the rest.
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> So any suggestions out there? Make? Model? What do you'all think of 
> Linksys and Netgear? Any others you'all can suggest?
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> Verizon suggests Linksys equipment since their DSL Modems are made by 
> them.
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> cAcTUsKId:)
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