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 1OHCvF-0000O4-9J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 May 2010 09:29:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D230E0C5D; Wed, 26 May 2010 09:28:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59BDDE0C5D for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 09:28:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 408DEDEBFF for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 10:28:13 +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 K-3j7S1FsO7X for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 10:28:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18754DEBFA for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 10:28:13 +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: Wed, 26 May 2010 10:28:12 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.3 (Linux/2.6.34-gentoo; KDE/4.4.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <201005250948.45544.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <1274827541.3326.29.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1274827541.3326.29.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: <201005261028.12174.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 5b0eb9dd-e6d2-4484-952b-d8d0ed401660 X-Archives-Hash: b31bda8207da607f3755619fe8ad40cd On Tuesday 25 May 2010 23:45:41 Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 09:48 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > 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? > > no :) There is a serial port which is good enough for a console, > which you can use until your network is working. All very well if you happen to have such a device lying around. I don't, however, and Google doesn't show me a source of them either, so I'll just wait for something more suitable to come along. Cheaper, too, with any luck, such as the devices Neil mentioned on Monday. Thanks anyway. -- Rgds Peter.