Re: small device with IP address

["Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () opaltelecom co uk>]

RAD produce a whole range of tiny routers and similar products which are
about the size of a transceiver, you'd have to check pricing tho, I think
they're all above $100 but I'm not sure. www.rad.com

Steve

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

> 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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