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Subject:    [LRP] NEED YOUR OPINIONS ON ORINOCO
From:       "Jason Vanasdale" <vanasdale () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2001-06-29 13:12:19
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fery and linuxrouter developers,
fery sounds like he has a good image. I cannot use it because it requires an 
eepro100 NIC.  Can someone write and support and image that uses NE2000 
cards, VANDEM ISA adapters, and have it compiled for a 486?  I have always 
used idiot-images for my dial-up connection because I never could put in the 
time required to learn and build a functioning diald router.
I believe that NE2000 (ISA and/or PCI) and VANDEM (ISA or PCI) router 
compiled for a 486 may be the most useful Orinoco Router image to make for 
the LRP community just because these items are very abundant. If it's 
compiled for a 486 (or even a 386) would work almost as good on a pentium?

I'm not trying to save a $100+ on this one router, but I am looking from an 
isp view.  Their business client premise equipment costs nearly $1000 in 
equipment when implemented with: Antenna, Cable, Ground, Pigtails, radio 
(orinoco /EC and card), and a cable/xDSL router. If LRP was involved I 
estimate it drops the price down to around $500: Antenna, cable, ground, 
pigtails, ISA adapter, PC Card, and an inexpensive 486 LRP box booting from 
floppy. Of course, this LRP box whould have NAT, DHCP, and whatever else 
will fit on a 1.68MB floppy.

I'm not an ISP, but this sounds like a Godsend to them and Campus Wireless 
implementations.

Tell me what you think.

>From: "fery" <fery@psn.co.id>
>you can find it
>in ftp://lachniet.com/pub/lrp
>but that's for pentium class (any body know where is for 486 class image ?)

>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Jason Vanasdale
>   To: linux-router@linuxrouter.org
>   Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 6:31 PM
>   Subject: [LRP] orinoco question
>
>
>   Weeks ago I thought I saw an Orinoco single-floppy dummy image.  Now I 
>want
>   it.
>
>   I'm looking to connect my home network to  a 486 LRP box w/NE2000 card,
>   802.11b Card, and ISA adapter to share my wireless-isp connection on my
>   wired lan.
>
>   I am only finding is people trying to make Access Points. I just want a 
>LRP
>   box to do what it did with my dialup connection (firewall, NAT, dhcp, 
>Ect.).
>
>   I have heard of firmware problems with creating bridges, but is this the
>   same? I just want to access the WISP.
>
>   Thanks


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