[TriLUG] Donations

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 16:53, Thomas C. Meggs wrote:
> Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> > Roy, correct me if I'm wrong, but one of those Linksys or Netgear
> > cable/dsl routers with a four port switch would probably do the
> > same thing as the portable firewall and you could probably just
> > plug it in and go.  Actually, I believe they even have that with
> > included wireless which would be even better because then we'd 
> > just need the one box to do everything. :-)
> 
> The only thing that occurs to me about that is just the demonstration 
> factor. If the NAT box you bring around to meetings and install fests 
> actually runs Linux, it shows people the extent of what one can do with 
> a free UNIX. From this perspective, it may be advantageous to have the 
> portable firewall be an actual computer, which could also be a demo 
> computer. One thing that comes to mind immediatly is to get one of the 
> earlier models of the Shuttle XPC. They have a PCI slot and are nicely 
> small and luggable. I imagine you could get the motherboard/case + PCI 
> 802.11b card for under $200, and finding a processor and disk from some 
> of the PCs that are 'kicking around' without rack mount cases probably 
> wouldn't be that hard as well.
> 
> At any rate, it's just a thought. Why buy a Netgear or Linksys 'router' 
> when you can do it with Linux and have a machine ready to demo with as well?

That's a good point, and it is what we're doing currently with the older
Toshiba laptop that Roy is now using.  I'm actually not aware of the
problems Chris mentioned way back in this thread; hopefully Roy will
pipe in and explain. :-)  We have been having problems with the airport
wireless access point but it was fine at the last meeting.

--Jeremy