Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:38:02 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptops as routers Message-ID: <41846C2A.9080206@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <p0611040dbda9c3a61a55@[10.20.30.249]> References: <p0611040dbda9c3a61a55@[10.20.30.249]>
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Paul Hoffman wrote: > Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to > be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle > PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on > the motherboard is fine, of course.) I don't want to run XWindows, and > I'm sure 64 MB and a 1gig hard drive would suffice. > > Are there any brands/models I should lean towards? Ones I should avoid? > > --Paul Hoffman > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Here is a better idea! Step 1: Go dumpster diving for old computers (Pentium 1 or better, 8MB IDE Storage Device or better, and a minimun of 48MB/Ram). Step 2: Grab some networks cards wail your in the dumpster. Step 3: Install said network cards into computers. Step 4: Install and configure m0n0wall on said computers. http://m0n0.ch/wall/ Step 5: Profit??? ------------------ Total Cost: $0.00
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