[33057] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: small device with IP address
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Brown)
Fri Dec 22 02:16:30 2000
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 02:13:56 -0500
From: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>
To: jlewis@lewis.org
Cc: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>,
Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>, nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012212341320.893-100000@redhat1.mmaero.com>; from jlewis@lewis.org on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 11:43:15PM -0500
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it can also be reconfigured to boot from the cdrom by default, and
that can have a disk in it with a minimal os on it. yes, you're
trading one moving part for another, but i think it's a little more
reliable.
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 11:43:15PM -0500, jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
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>Not very small, and has a hard drive...thus not very reliable, and prone
>to all sorts of nasty issues when it loses power unexpectedly.
>
>On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
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>> sparc ipc/ipx on ebay?
>>
>> joelja
>>
>> On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
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>> >
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> >
>>
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