From owner-freebsd-small Sun Oct 24 23:50:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles546.castles.com [208.214.165.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 691CE151CF for ; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 23:50:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA16646; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 23:42:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199910250642.XAA16646@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 24 Oct 1999 08:56:28 PDT." <199910241556.IAA27938@h4.private> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 23:42:20 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message