[ale] RE: [ale-unemployed] A proposal

[Keith R. Watson]

Charles,

I believe Smoothwall already supports USB.

http://www.smoothwall.org/

keith


At 03:15 PM 1/30/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> > Count me into.   I can give spear time as well as helping to
> > build servers doing installs, etc...  Showing a small business
> > the better cheaper way to go would be a way to really get at M$.
> > And have us profit at the same time.  Has anyone noticed, that
> > you can make a Linux server/router for about the same price as a
> > aDSL/Cable modem router?  Just talking price.
>
>This reminds me of an idea I've had for some time...
>
>I have been waiting forever for someone to come out with a Cable/DSL 
>router that also had a USB connection that could talk to a USB cable or 
>DSL modem.  Linksys came out with one recently that has a USB port, but it 
>is for connecting to the computer, not to a USB modem.  Obviously it would 
>have
>
>How difficult would this be to build?  And at the same time, you could 
>change the 10BT WAN port to a 10/100 switched port, and the same box could 
>be used as a cheap internal network router as well.
>
>Just thinking out loud...
>
>Charles

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Keith R. Watson                        GTRI/AIST
Systems Support Specialist III         Georgia Tech Research Institute
keith.watson at gtri.gatech.edu           Atlanta, GA  30332-0816
404-894-0836

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