Re: small device with IP address

[Andrew Brown <twofsonet () graffiti com>]

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:
> 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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