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[–]ikidd 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I used to build ipchains firewalls for SMB customers out of cheap or used desktops before there were things like Linksys or Dlink hardware firewalls. I'd just build from a scratch kernel with appropriate options, and I'd buy boxes of NE2K network cards because that was the only reliable network driver at that time.

Then I went full Microsoft for a bunch of years because I was running an MSP, and came back to it only a few years ago when Windows 8 pissed me off.