[33011] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: small device with IP address
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jlewis@lewis.org)
Thu Dec 21 09:48:59 2000
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:41:25 -0500 (EST)
From: jlewis@lewis.org
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a device somewhere that is small, cheap, has
> 1 10mbit (or 100mbit) ethernet port and a small IP stack that enable you
> to set ip address and default gateway on it (dhcp perhaps?).
>
> I would like to put something like this at some customers to use for
> pinging to see that the customer is reachable. Cost should preferrably be
> in the $50-$100 range.
Seems kind of a waste of a parallel port...but you should be able to find
10baseT/parallel print servers for at least as low as $45. I can't think
of anything cheaper/smaller with ethernet and IP.
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