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Posted by Subway steel on July 1, 2008, 9:52 am
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> wrote:
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Snit
>> wrote
>> on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:14:34 -0700
>>> a1bb0bfb-07ef-4d67-bef5-2f82875b2dd4@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com on
>>> 6/30/08
>>> 6:07 PM:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> "While Cisco accidentally created an open source router a few years
>>>> ago, getting caught with Linux in its Linksys, the company never
>>>> exploited this as a feature, but treated it as a bug, blaming chip
>>>> supplier Broadcom.
>>>>
>>>> Netgear is definitely treating this as a feature."
>>>>
>>>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2612&tag=nl.e550
>>>>
>>>> -RFH
>>>>
>>> That is an area where Linux and OSS should shine...
>>
>> Why? A router's a router. Granted, I'd probably trust a
>> Linux-based router a little more, since I can readily get
>> the source code for it -- but what does a router do? It
>
> It's a gatekeeper for your physical network.
>
> As such, there's a lot of traffic that can be blocked at
> the gateway that doesn't need to ever make it's way into
> the rest of your physical network.
>
> Ethernet is a broadcast medium, so the advantage of this is blatantly
> obvious.
>
>> routes. Could be Linux. Could be Windows. Could be BSD.
>> Could be a custom solution that is specific to that router
>> hardware, though nowadays microprocessors are extremely
>> common anyway, making a software solution practical.
>>
>> (Also problematic if there's a bug therein.)
>>
>>> set it and, for the most
>>> part, forget it... or even when you have to tinker there is a very
>>> limited
>>> amount of functionality you expect from a router... UI issues become
>>> less
>>> important (though, obviously, still are important just not as much as,
>>> say,
>>> on a desktop computer).
>>>
>>
Are you sure that you're talking about a router and not a firewall?
I realize that routers usually include firewall functionality but what
you're talking about sounds more like the functionality of the firewall
rather than the functionality provided by the router.
- ss
>> The standard "router UI" nowadays would probably be web-based.
>>
>
> Basically, a better appliance means you are less inclined to roll your
> own.
>
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