From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OGppN-0004Lm-DZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 May 2010 08:49:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 81A70E07E2; Tue, 25 May 2010 08:48:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57BCAE07E2 for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 08:48:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 842F7DED30 for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 09:48:46 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id L6n9vWdgufEP for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 09:48:46 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C563DED08 for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 09:48:46 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall? Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 09:48:45 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.3 (Linux/2.6.34-gentoo; KDE/4.4.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4700E267-14D9-43A6-A00E-A388B5C20473@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <1274759705.3326.21.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1274759705.3326.21.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201005250948.45544.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: b6b181dd-9f33-442c-ae5d-e5f2fe7fc191 X-Archives-Hash: 302dc13ee47dd341d01b78fd96366d37 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. We've used IDE and > flash in them, usually IDE for the convenience. We compile for x86. > The 4 network ports are nice, and there's some GPIO to boot. 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? -- Rgds Peter.