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Re: small device with IP address

  • From: Andrew Brown
  • Date: Fri Dec 22 02:18:39 2000

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, [email protected] 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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