Re: Laptops as routers

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

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To: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com>

    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
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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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