[33013] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: small device with IP address
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Goldstein)
Thu Dec 21 09:58:18 2000
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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:41:06 -0500
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
From: Steve Goldstein <sgoldste@nsf.gov>
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At 3:23 PM +0100 12/21/00, 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.
>
D-Link Residential Gateway, about $84 on Buy.com. It is a NAT box,
configurable with a Windows GUI or directly through a serial port.
Ethernet to the modem (e.g., xDSL) and ethernet to the local
network. Does DHCP to the local hosts and can live with PPPOE.
Accepts a static IP address. I have one at home, and it works well
and is easy to set up.
--Steve
