aximbigfan

i am getting my house painted and i was having a conversaion with one of the painters and some how we got talking about computers. he asked me ifi wanted his old notebook and so i jumped at the chance thinking i would shove an ethernet card into it and make it a dhcp server. the thing is that he doesnt know too much about it. and he wont be able to get it to me until a cuple of days. so what i want to know is if anyone can recingnie the specs that he did know and maybe make a guesss as to what model the nb is.

WHAT I KNOW ABOUT IT
-it is made by compaq
-it has 2 usb ports
-it has a 13inch screen
-it is about 5 years old
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from those specs what model of compaq nb do you guys think it is?


chris

aximbigfan

hmmafter some reserch it looks like it might be this onethe time line is <almost> correct and it has a 13 inch screen. although, no menhine of usb<?>

chris

Grentz

There are so many different models of compaqs that it could be, I guess you really just need to wait and find out.

aximbigfan

ok. i guess his idea of a little while was a few hours. he came by a bit ago. it turns out that it is two systems. one is a compaq armoda and the other is a compaq too. i think the compaq armoda will be converted to a dhcp server soon...

chris

cbs01

Just wandering, but why would you want to turn a 5 year old laptop into a
dhcp server when you can buy a router (which has a firewall; bonus) for like $40 or less.

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aximbigfan

Originally Posted by cbs01

Just wandering, but why would you want to turn a 5 year old laptop into a dhcp server when you can buy a router (which has a firewall; bonus) for like $40 or less.

becuse none of the routers out there are really routersthey are just gateways.also the routers that they sell arent nearly advanced enough for what i need it to do..

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cbs01

So you will keep a 5 year old laptop running 24/7 just to assign ip addresses to other computers, good luck.

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aximbigfan

yup. but its not just that. i mean name one router that has ip reserve and can do all of the things that smoothwall can do.


chris

cbs01

By IP reserve, I assume you are talking about assigning a specific address to a specific device and then keeping that address static to that device. I dont recall ever coming across a router that doesnt allow you to do that.

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Originally Posted by aximbigfan

yup. but its not just that. i mean name one router that has ip reserve and can do all of the things that smoothwall can do. chris

Smoothwall is a firewall product. My router does routing. So does yours, whether you understand it or not ;)

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Just wandering, but why would you want to turn a 5 year old laptop into a dhcp server when you can buy a router (which has a firewall; bonus) for like $40 or less.

I have built a router that outperforms an $80 Linksys...

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Grentz

The WRT54L is also an awesome router, it has some very advanced routing functions and works great.

A router is not that complicated of a device and there are not really that many "features" that are additional to a router. Unless you go into completely other topics like Firewall, Security, VPN, etc.

aximbigfan

Originally Posted by cbs01

By IP reserve, I assume you are talking about assigning a specific address to a specific device and then keeping that address static to that device. I dont recall ever coming across a router that doesnt allow you to do that.

linksys's dont.. d link's dont...


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I let my 3Com firewall do the "firewalling" and my PowerEdge server does the rest. For home use I prefer one server which has Exchange, DNS, DHCP, and my applications on it. The servers I administrate at work is another story entirely.

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aximbigfan

yeah, i want to install windows server edition for dhcp but i dont have a disk and im ot going to drop 1000 bux for one...


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