Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall?

[Peter Humphrey]

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.