LF laptop for IPCOP firewall

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 02:25:02PM -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> 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.

Right.  Although it is one less driver to load that way.

> Most laptops -- even old ones -- had at least a CD reader, except for
> the ones intended to be ligher than others on the market.

I worked with a pentium 233mmx thinkpad a few years ago that certainly
did not have a cdrom drive nor built in networking.

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Len Sorensen
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