Re: Req: Recommendation on VIA EPIA Boards/Small Dual Lan units

["Dom De Vitto" <dom@DeVitto.com>]

1) go to ebay.
2) Buy the cheapest PC you can find, >386, >16mb ram, >100mb disk.

I saw *two* Compaq SFF 450mhz P3s, sans disk, but with builtin NIC
for £10.50. That's £5 each - around $7.50usd !

Getting 386/486/P1 is pretty pointless now - you could pay 20% more
and get 3 times the performance.  Also if you need to upgrade it,
8mb of EDO memory costs the same as 128mb of SDRAM....

Dom
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Dom De Vitto                                       Tel. 07855 805 271
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Where do you want to go today?  Same as every day.... Windows Update.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of
Gabriel Guzman
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 11:58 PM
To: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: Req: Recommendation on VIA EPIA Boards/Small Dual Lan units

On Friday 06 February 2004 01:54 pm, cmturner2@alltel.net wrote:
> I'm looking to buy/assemble a "cheap" small, hopefully fanless, 
> machine for an obsd project of spurious "real" value other than to 
> satisfy my current network tinkering needs.

www.soekris.com

all work with openbsd. 
  
  multiple nics,
  power over ethernet,
  small footprint etc. etc. 

very nice machines, very pleasant to work with. 

gabe.