Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 00:35:37 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>, "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: DSL PPPoE with 2 NICs Message-ID: <002401c16e79$aa9871a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <006301c16e0a$fca53ba0$6600000a@ach.domain>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Andrew C. >Hornback >Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 11:23 AM >To: Anthony Atkielski; FreeBSD Questions >Subject: RE: DSL PPPoE with 2 NICs > > > If $100/hr is a realistic figure, where do I sign up? I'd >like to get onto >that gravy train... > Andrew, while I disagree with a lot of what Anthony is saying there's a lot of basis to this figure. If the IT person happens to be working for a corporation, the _total cost_ of each of his hours (remember the corporation has to pay a bunch of extra costs for each employee starting with the payroll taxes like the employer matching Social Security) can hit $100 quite fast. > > I see... so that's why so many people out there are rushing >to toss out >their FreeBSD-powered routers for pieces from our friends at Cisco, etc. ? > Here again is an apples-to-oranges comparison. What Anthony is comparing FreeBSD against is something like the $70 LinkSys DSL router, not a Cisco 1605 which costs almost 20 times that amount new. But his comparisons are wrong for other reasons. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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