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Wow pricey solutions me I'd take a junk PC Pentium 2 and throw in 3 network cards, load up monowall, https://m0n0.ch/wall/ and create 1 - Wan and 2 - Lan interfaces and cable each Lan to separate switches. create routing tables to allow bow Lan's to access the Wan but not the other Lan.

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I'd get a used Cisco 3640.

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Wow pricey solutions me I'd take a junk PC Pentium 2 and throw in 3 network cards, load up monowall, https://m0n0.ch/wall/ and create 1 - Wan and 2 - Lan interfaces and cable each Lan to separate switches. create routing tables to allow bow Lan's to access the Wan but not the other Lan.
Use a junk PC for your router at home, but don't use it for a client. A dedicated router, whether it's a Dlink or Cisco, is going to be much more reliable. (provided you do some research and buy a reliable model) It will also take up less space, generate less noise and consume less power. You likely wont generate a lot of confidence when you walk into a client's office with an old junker PC that you intend to use for their connection to the outside world. If you crave some type of a home brew solution, you could load an open source firmware on a Linksys router and get the best of both worlds.

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There's no room for home brew in a professional business environment unless the end user is fully aware. I, on the other hand, always recommend enterprise supported options to avoid problems down the road. Sometimes (most of the time?) it's just not worth the hassle.

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Use a junk PC for your router at home, but don't use it for a client. A dedicated router, whether it's a Dlink or Cisco, is going to be much more reliable.
You could use a good (server-grade) PC, but that costs more money.

Dlink and Cisco aren't even in the same chapter in the book on "reliable".

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Dlink and Cisco aren't even in the same chapter in the book on "reliable".
My point wasn't to compare the reliability of Dlink and Cisco gear, my point was that either of those options is more reliable than the old junk PC.

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My point wasn't to compare the reliability of Dlink and Cisco gear, my point was that either of those options is more reliable than the old junk PC.
In the case of the Dlink, it isn't by much. You get exactly what you pay for with a Dlink. That's why they're cheap.

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IMHO, a linux based solution does have a proven track record of reliabilty. If not, most web servers wouldn't function. Whether the proposed hardware is reliable, that may not be true.

What gets me is that there are those who think M$ and Cisco are unfailable. Just a quick question, who created unix and what kind of reliabilty were they going for? cellphone?

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Cisco IOS has been around for about 20 years. They've had time to get it right.

Linux has been around almost but not quite that long too (it came out in 1993 as I recall). They've also had time to get that right, too.

The majority of webservers run Linux connected to Cisco routers.

AT&T, of course, created Unix.

Linux is very reliable as a router, assuming the hardware is good. There are ways to do it without needing a hard drive, which removes a failure point.

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