[rescue] needed: cable/DSL router

[Rob Harhen]

Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 wrote:

>On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:57:19PM -0500, Dan Sikorski wrote:
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>>On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 18:40, Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 wrote:
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>>>I am looking for a decent quality cable/DSL router.
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>>>Suggestions are welcome.  I only need two ethernet ports.
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>>IMHO, a little box running netBSD will do a much better job than one of
>>those little linksys/d-link/SMC/whoever boxes.  But that's just me.
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>It has to be up, all the time.  A failure means I have to drive at
>least 20 minutes to fix it.  Maybe a floppy based picoBSD setup would
>be a good idea, though.
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>Cordially
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Having a floppy in the field like that has allways been a pretty scary 
concept for me..
You can put togeather a mini-itx system with like a 32MB CF card and a 
really slimmed down version of openbsd or freebsd and ipf/ipnatfor 
pretty cheep and without all that much effort and end up with a pretty 
small enclosure, I currently have a workable freebsd setup in under 20 
MB with ipf and ipnat that works pretty flawlessly. If your interested 
send me an email

Rob Harhen