Re: Laptops as routers

From: Nikolas Britton (freebsd_at_nbritton.org)
Date: 10/31/04

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    Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:38:02 -0500
To: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com>

    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
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    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

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