Re: Laptops as routers
From: Emanuel Strobl (Emanuel.Strobl_at_gmx.net)
Date: 10/31/04
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To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:12:19 +0200
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/ (net4501
for easiest requirements, better 4801, all in one extendable box) or if you
need just basic 586cpu-power without extendability and only (well designed)
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
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
like to mention that old laptops often can't handle modern PC-CARDSs
(CARDBUS), PCMCIA was 5v and 16 bit wide, very slow and really not sutable
for routing purposes!
-Harry
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> --Paul Hoffman
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