Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 07:22:16 +0100 From: cpghost@cordula.ws To: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptops as routers Message-ID: <20041031062216.GA560@bsdbox.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <p0611040dbda9c3a61a55@[10.20.30.249]> References: <p0611040dbda9c3a61a55@[10.20.30.249]>
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On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 03:20:39PM -0700, 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. You may be better off with Soekris boxes, e.g. the net4801, which runs FreeBSD RELENG_5 just fine: http://www.soekris.com/ > Are there any brands/models I should lean towards? Ones I should avoid? > > --Paul Hoffman Cheers, cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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