LF laptop for IPCOP firewall

[Evan Leibovitch]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 06:43:14AM -0400, John Van Ostrand wrote:
>   
>> Why two identical NICs? Shouldn't you be able to use the on-board NIC
>> (if it has one) and any other Linux supported PCMCIA or USB?
>>     
>
> A 486 laptop would almost certainly not have built in networking.
Going back to the original question, "486" was stated as a minimum, not
a requirement.

The easiest answer to the original post appears to be that the least
grief would be had with a laptop -- any laptop -- with a built-in
Ethernet connector. The second one could be easily added in the PCMCIA slot.

John is right that asking for two _identical_ Ethernet interfaces on a
laptop is likely not worth the bother unless there's a _really_
important reason to do so.

> A built in CD-ROM is also unlikely on that level of machine.
>   
Most laptops -- even old ones -- had at least a CD reader, except for
the ones intended to be ligher than others on the market.

- Evan

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