From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 30 23:12:25 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 6C48B16A4CE for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:12:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D85A43D41 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:12:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Emanuel.Strobl@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 12533 invoked by uid 65534); 30 Oct 2004 23:12:23 -0000 Received: from flb.schmalzbauer.de (EHLO cale.flintsbach.schmalzbauer.de) (62.245.232.135) by mail.gmx.net (mp007) with SMTP; 31 Oct 2004 01:12:23 +0200 X-Authenticated: #301138 From: Emanuel Strobl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:12:19 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD X-Birthday: 10/06/72 X-Address: Munich, 80686 X-Tel: +49 89 18947781 X-CelPhone: +49 173 9967781 X-Country: Germany MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1452694.MWdaNZJHL2"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410310112.21385.Emanuel.Strobl@gmx.net> cc: Paul Hoffman Subject: Re: 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 23:12:25 -0000 --nextPart1452694.MWdaNZJHL2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman: > 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? Bad idea IMHO. I'd suggest having a look at http://www.soekris.com/ (net450= 1=20 for easiest requirements, better 4801, all in one extendable box) or if you= =20 need just basic 586cpu-power without extendability and only (well designed)= =20 ethernet ports see: http://www.pcengines.ch/wrap.htm You can use any type of PC as terminal to operate these boxes vi the serial= =20 interface. Perhaps you already have any old vt100 terminal handy. But I don''t have an answer to your original question, sorry. Although I'd= =20 like to mention that old laptops often can't handle modern PC-CARDSs=20 (CARDBUS), PCMCIA was 5v and 16 bit wide, very slow and really not sutable= =20 for routing purposes! =2DHarry > > --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" --nextPart1452694.MWdaNZJHL2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBhB/VBylq0S4AzzwRAiv4AJ4iaYhLfiBdxZzVOStmAO6IRwcLIwCeMn1i CoX8fRro0EfB2YEsSiCaI40= =0Nz+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1452694.MWdaNZJHL2--