[MLB-WIRELESS] Suggestion

[Barry Park]

Nice idea, but what's the incentive? It once was my ambition to start
building up old, redundant box3n as primarily Optus at Home and BigPond
friendly firewalls and then selling them at swap meets for *ahem* profit.
The only problem with this idea is that you're selling something to someone
who does not, and most likely will never, know what it does. If it falls
over for any reason, it's useless to them. They won't know how to
troubleshoot it, let alone what could be wrong with it. They're not going to
tweak it, so it won't improve over time. As an indication, I gave my father
a test box and he didn't even bother to surf the logs as he thought the
firewall didn't need maintenance.
More trouble than it's worth, IMHO. Better to give an exponential surge to
the learning curve and build your own.
- Barry

BTW, if anyone wants to build old box3n up as firewalls and flog them off at
swap meets, go for it. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Hocking [mailto:hocking at planet.net.au]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 12:36 PM
To: melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Suggestion


I know it's easy to do, but will someone do it?

All the software is open source - so that's no problem. All you need to do
is put a power supply, motherboard (with a few cards in it), and a small
200MB harddrive in a box (not even a case - just a black plastic box with a
few holes put in - only around $20-40 at Dick Smiths), and mount it
together and your done.

I am guessing the software will run on a 486 system. If so then I have
heaps of old 486 motherboards and power supplys, as well as fairly slow
network cards.

So then you have a package. A 486 with the stuff in a box. You can then
sell it to people on the list, who don't already have a setup. If your
feeling very generous, you can just charge for the parts and not the
laybour.

Anyway that's my two cents! :)

Bye!

Sincerely,
Chris Hocking


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