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Date:      Sun, 24 Oct 1999 23:42:20 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        papowell@astart.com
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG, kjc@csl.sony.co.jp, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it
Subject:   Re: picobsd micro nat box 
Message-ID:  <199910250642.XAA16646@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Oct 1999 08:56:28 PDT." <199910241556.IAA27938@h4.private> 

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> Lets see...
> 
> 1. Take one Lantronix,  Emulex,  Summix, Zimax, etc., print spooler
> box.  These have 1 ethernet 10/100 mbps, 2 parallel port, 1 serial
> port interface.  OK OK, these use a wall plug power supply.
> But the box I am looking at right now is 8inches wide, 1 inch high (thick),
> and 5 inches deep.
...
> I will not claim that the code changes are 'trivial' but if you are
> familiar with IPFilter then it takes about a day.
> 
> The configuration and user interface is a bit more work.
> 
> Ummm... the whole slamboodle,  with IPNAt, and Print spooling,
> etc. etc. is about 982K,  (compressed),  uses about 8 Mbytes
> RAM.  You can save the configuration in CMOS (Dallas makes some
> VERY interesting RTC,  RAM chips just for this purpose).

Great.  So tell me where I can buy one or more, and how to build and 
blast new firmware into it.  8)

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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