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Date:      Fri, 16 Nov 2001 17:07:03 -0500
From:      "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>
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:  <20011116220727.7BA8937B417@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 21:08:50 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:

>> I simply care to use the best tool for the job, and
>> a $100 router which can be replaced by a $20 NIC and a
>> $20 PC... well, you do the math.
>
>Let's see: $20 for the NIC, $100 for the PC (sorry, but $20 is not realistic),
>and three hours of work at, say, $30 an hour equal ... $210, or more than twice
>the cost of the router.  Yes, I did the math, and FreeBSD loses.  In fact, it
>loses just on hardware costs alone.

yeah but its real hard to ftp in and get a file though a router.

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doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net



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