[SunRescue] Routers for Mr. Bill (oh-ho!)

[James Fogg]

Actually, the Linksys box supports pptp passthrough (iow, pptp to a machine
behing the linksys).

I had the 1 port linksys on 640 dsl. Very happy with the unit. Now I'm without
DSL. Very unhappy about dialup.

Of course, a box with a $100.00 retail price won't provide enough profit for
groceries, but will by a few big macs.

Sell him your consulting time to "reconfigure" the NT server for pptp behind
the linksys "firewall" (it does provide an access list type firewall, but not
statefull). That should be good for about 2 hours, which should be about
$300.00, which should be good for 2 weeks of groceries and the gas to get them.

What I have personally found is that I can bust my hump and spend lots of time
selling hardware for about $2000 profit (thats a LOT of hardware in the tighter
Bush economy), or I can spend two unstressfull days doing consulting work and
make $2000.00 and spend another day or two lining up more work. In other words,
even Wal-Mart can sell routers, but it takes someone who knows the ropes to
make them work. I have found very few companies with onboard talent that can
install and configure a router without much gnashing of teeth and foul language.

 On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, THOU SPAKE:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:05:52PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> > You know, I forgot about this, but the retail router boxes are 
> > quite affordable now.
> > The Netgear cable/dsl router was as low as $80 at CompUSA, $100 seems a more likely price point though.
> > LinkSys has a 1 port model for $100 (buy.com), as well as both a  4 port ($140 most places) and an 8 port switch model ($200 IIRC).
> > SMC has a box (and so do a few others) that even contain a print server for similar prices.
> 
> If all I needed was NAT, I'd go with one of these, but I also have the following "requirements":
> 
> 	Needs MS PPTP VPN support
> 	Would be nice to have SAMBA on the same box as well 8-)
> 
> Plus, I'm actually selling an old box of mine to the client, so I dont want
> to miss out on that, so I can buy groceries. 
> 
> Bill