[PLUG] Comcast, books, IP addresses - (was) Victor ...

[Sean Whitney]

Naw they are full duplex 100MB 4port ethernet cards.  This is still cheaper.
Does the linksys offer a remote reboot option through a serial port? 
Can I hook that up to a 56k modem and manage it remotely?  That would be
cool. 

Sean

m0gely wrote:
> Sean Whitney wrote:
>   
>> it's not as electically light, but I've been buying old sun u1 boxes,
>> dropping 4 port ethernet cards in them and turning them into
>> firewall/routers/openvpn servers.
>>
>> I've picked up u1 for free - $15.00 and the 4 port ethernet cards for $7.50.
>>     
>
> Aren't those half duplex 10Mb?  I believe the built-in port in the SS10 
> I had was.  Anyway, that's a lot of juice for a simple firewall. 
> OpenWRT or DDWRT on a linksys router is only ~50.  And you get wireless 
> to boot.
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