Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall?

2010-05-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 23:45:41 Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 09:48 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: I'm intrigued. How do you connect displays to them? I assume you'd need one for at least the first steps of installing an OS, no? no :) There is a serial port which is good enough

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall?

2010-05-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 10:28 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: All very well if you happen to have such a device lying around. I don't, however, and Google doesn't show me a source of them either, so I'll just wait for something more suitable to come along. Cheaper, too, with any luck, such as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall?

2010-05-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 04:55:05 Iain Buchanan wrote: We buy about 5 - 10 of these (started on the net4801, now the net5501) per year at work: http://www.yawarra.com.au/hw-net5501.php And make them do various things ranging in intensity from data servers to gateway/firewall/routers and so on.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall?

2010-05-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 09:48 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 25 May 2010 04:55:05 Iain Buchanan wrote: We buy about 5 - 10 of these (started on the net4801, now the net5501) per year at work: http://www.yawarra.com.au/hw-net5501.php And make them do various things ranging in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall?

2010-05-24 Thread Stroller
On 24 May 2010, at 14:11, James wrote: ... Beware, it often becomes a life long passion to the point of an addition. This is exactly what I fear of using such specialist hardware! Far better to burn a few watts, than to have to learn such intricacies!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall?

2010-05-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 20:39 +0100, Stroller wrote: On 24 May 2010, at 14:11, James wrote: ... Beware, it often becomes a life long passion to the point of an addition. This is exactly what I fear of using such specialist hardware! Far better to burn a few watts, than to have to learn