From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 30 22:21:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BAEE16A4CE for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 22:21:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from above.proper.com (above.proper.com [208.184.76.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4005543D1F for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 22:21:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phoffman@proper.com) Received: from [10.20.30.249] (dsl2-63-249-109-3.cruzio.com [63.249.109.3]) (authenticated bits=0) by above.proper.com (8.12.11/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9UMKbit087198 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 15:20:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phoffman@proper.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: phoffprop@mail.proper.com Message-Id: Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 15:20:39 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Paul Hoffman Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: Laptops as routers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 22:21:16 -0000 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