From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jun 26 9:34:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from host5.domaindataservers.net (host5.domaindataservers.net [216.15.133.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD0CB37B40F for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:34:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 64-35-128-121.gohighspeed.com ([64.35.128.121] helo=win98) by host5.domaindataservers.net with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17NFjz-0005Kt-00 for freebsd-small@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 11:33:59 -0500 Message-ID: <003101c21d2f$518f2800$0702a8c0@win98> From: "Mark Koskenmaki" To: Subject: What's cooking? Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:34:16 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host5.domaindataservers.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [0 0] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - nwbombers.com Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's been a long time since I was on this list. Wondering if it's active. I have an interesting idea, I need multiport ethernet (that is, ethernet ports, no serial, etc) routers at remote locations, preferrably ones that can run on low power - that is, solar / wind generation - say, 12V DC. One needs to be able to support at least 4 nics. This is a mountaintop location, and I'm routing wireless IP networks at that point. The network configuration at that point becomes somewhat complex, as I have a multi-hop P2P wireless link to start, then I need to add new networks which are subnetted, and point at various POP's in small towns in sight of the hilltop. If you know of any hardware filling this bill, that can run picobsd, let me know. I'm still interested in the goings on here... and even if I have to use a regular PC somehow kludged into weatherproof boxes, I'll do it. I've seen Linux devices sort of made for this, but I don't want to use Linux...I'm just a BSD fanatic :) Oh, yeah, I'm a cheap SOB, so no way will you see me buying Cisco routers to do what I could do with an old PC and some NIC cards... ! Mark Koskenmaki webmaster:www.nwbombers.com Forum moderator @ turbodieselregister.com WISP advocate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message