Re: small device with IP address

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () darkwing uoregon edu>]

but you can have them for $50ea. It was meant kinda in jest but the would
work.

power loss is not a big deal if you're adequatelly prepared... we used to
run several as dedicated xterms (back in the day) with read-only file.
people would power them on in the morning and turn them off at night...
none of the users had the root password or even accounts on the box...

joelja

On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 jlewis () lewis org wrote:

> 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:
>
> > sparc ipc/ipx on ebay?
> >
> > joelja
> >
> > 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.
> >
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It is clear that the arm of criticism cannot replace the criticism of
arms.  Karl Marx -- Introduction to the critique of Hegel's Philosophy of
the right, 1843.