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Bill Bradford wrote:

> I'd honestly recommend just spending $100, and getting one of the
> LinkSys BEFSR41 or 11 NAT router/gateways, or one of the SMC Barricade


What happens, though, when someone finds an exploit for them? At least
if you've done it yourself with [*BSD|Linux] you can make what changes
you need to. With those products you've got to wait for a vendor patch.
That bothers me for some reason. I like the fact that my castoff peecee
running a free OS and self-configured by me does a mighty fine job of
doing what I need. Real Soon Now it'll be a SPARC2 instead of a peecee.
Where can it go wrong? Really, I need to know.

Plus, I can't spend the $100 at the moment.


---sambo