OT: ADSL safe practices and setting up a home network

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> writes:
> They cost less than using a dedicated general purpose machine for
> that purpose.

If you are going to be running that general purpose machine anyway
there isn't any savings.

> They don't make as much noise as a general purpose machine.

You might want to look into an Antec Sonata case.  The thing is
wonderfully quiet.  While it isn't quite as quiet as the fanless
hardware router, it is quieter than the birds chirping outside or the
traffic noise from cars driving by.

> So if you want a machine that will act as a firewall for the rest of your
> network 24x7, it can make sense to use a firewall box to do this rather
> than a general purpose machine.

If you want to run NFS so that your home directory is the same no
matter which computer you sit down at, you'll end up keeping that
computer up all the time anyway.

-wolfgang
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