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Nate Williams wrote:
> 
> > In Nate's position where he is in a small office and doesn't need the
> > added functions of the Cisco, it is a great idea for hime to build his
> > own.
> 
> Right.  What I have isn't for everyone, but for small offices/ISP's who
> don't have a lot of $$ to throw at dedicated hardware, the PC is a great
> solution.  (Especially when 'routing packets' isn't enough to have a
> working network.
> 
> > specialized box.  Plus, our routers have been up for months without
> > rebooting...the PC Router won't stay up that long without something having
> > to be done on it (my opinion, please don't kill me for it...;) )
> 
>  1:37PM  up 168 days,  2:07, 7 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.09
> 
> That was right after we installed a UPS after a storm knocked it out.
> If it wasn't for the power outage it'd been up for almost a year.
> 

If the boxes ONLY job were to be a router, would it be possible put
everything it needed onto a floppy and build a system without a HD?  Or
at least set up powersaving on the HD and let it spin down after a few
minutes?  I imagine nothing needs to be written or read from the drive
very often.