[plug] ADSL: Hardware Gateways vs Linux

[Onno Benschop]

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 15:23, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Cameron Patrick wrote:
> 
> > I'd go for a couple of cheap network cards, a plain ADSL modem (no
> > router) and a separate wireless AP.
> 
> I'm a big fan of this approach. It gives you flexibility when you 
> upgrade, among other things. You can buy a 802.11reallyfast++++ access 
> point without effectively chucking your DSL modem and vice versa.

True

> It's also less problematic if/when a device dies. To top it off, you can 
> get much better security. Quad port ethernet cards are an option if 
> you're building a Mini-ITX firewall, otherwise 3 or 4 basic NICs will do 
> the job nicely.

While your conclusion is correct, I should point out that the failure
rate of the system as a whole is likely higher with more devices,
because each can fail on its own and the whole system is borked anyway.
So from a reliability perspective this is worse than a single device.

Having said that, if this is a home, who cares?

Just thought I needed to point this out.

Cheers,

Onno Benschop 

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