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Date:      Sun, 31 Oct 2004 07:22:16 +0100
From:      cpghost@cordula.ws
To:        Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Laptops as routers
Message-ID:  <20041031062216.GA560@bsdbox.farid-hajji.net>
In-Reply-To: <p0611040dbda9c3a61a55@[10.20.30.249]>
References:  <p0611040dbda9c3a61a55@[10.20.30.249]>

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On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 03:20:39PM -0700, 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.

You may be better off with Soekris boxes, e.g. the net4801,
which runs FreeBSD RELENG_5 just fine:

  http://www.soekris.com/

> Are there any brands/models I should lean towards? Ones I should avoid?
> 
> --Paul Hoffman

Cheers,
cpghost.

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