From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 04:54:50 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 8C1B216A4CE for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 04:54:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91.asp.att.net [63.240.76.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34D8D43D2F for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 04:54:50 +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 <20041031045449i9100hp8jae>; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 04:54:49 +0000 Message-ID: <41847019.6070006@nbritton.org> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:54:49 -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: <41846C2A.9080206@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <41846C2A.9080206@nbritton.org> 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 04:54:50 -0000 Oh... If you don't want to do the dumpster diving then you can get some good stuff here: http://www.retrobox.com/rbwww/home/search_results_pc_computers.asp?bin_id=world&page=1&Manufacturer_ID=&CPU_ID=&CPU_Speed_ID=&RAM_ID=&HD_Size_ID=&CD_ROM_Flag=&Price=&order_by=price%5Fcurrent%5Fselling%5Fprice+asc Shipping & Handling is $27.50 per unit though. Nikolas Britton wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >