From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jan 20 02:20:37 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA07883 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 02:20:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailgate.imagination.co.uk (mailgate.imagination.co.uk [194.128.49.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA07872 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 02:20:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonathan.laventhol@imagination.co.uk) Received: from zz0649.imagination.co.uk (dhcp-79-248.imagination.co.uk [192.168.79.248]) by mailgate.imagination.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA02085 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:20:15 GMT Message-ID: <36A5B021.6669@imagination.co.uk> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:29:53 +0000 From: Jonathan Laventhol Organization: Imagination Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Know what would be cool? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Picofriends -- Good news for Mujtaba ... > In a shameless pitch after being too scared by the PicoBSD > Development Kit, I wanted to suggest (not necessarily request ;) that it > would be really cool if the Router version of PicoBSD also had a DHCP > server. I mean, it would be way cool :-) We am working on exactly this. We are building very small FreeBSD machines which will have DHCP server and a miniature DNS server (which I'll probably write). The machines will have a flash rom 'disk-on-chip' and are based on PC/104 architecture. This will go with a router for our remote sites which come in via auto-dial ISDN. That way we can boot laptops and so on at the remote site without making phone calls or if the ISDN link is down for any reason. (Many of our remote sites move around and international phone calls for an IP address seems a little expensive.) The mini DNS will resolve the local network, including local printer and so on. I'll post my results here. ETA one month. All best, Jonathan. -- Jonathan Laventhol Head of Inofrmation Technology ____________________________________________________________________ Imagination 25 Store Street South Crescent London WC1E 7BL England | Tel +44 171 323 3300 Fax +44 171 323 5801 | _______________________________________________________| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message