From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 04:38:06 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 BE88A16A4CF for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 04:38:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91.asp.att.net [63.240.76.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6855443D54 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 04:38:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from nbritton.org (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91) with SMTP id <20041031043803i9100hon9ve>; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 04:38:03 +0000 Message-ID: <41846C2A.9080206@nbritton.org> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:38:02 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Hoffman References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 04:38:06 -0000 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