Ahoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just a quick question.
I had a look at the laptop page but I'm feeling uncertain at the
information being provided, hence my question.
I would need a laptop for some particular kind of work. Basically it
would need to fit the following criteria:
1.a Contain 2 fully supported network cards of the Gigabit Ethernet kind
(rather no slow Realtek stuff but something easy on the CPU)
or
1.b Contain 2 fully supported Cardbus ports.
2. Contain a fully supported built-in wireless adapter.
3. Impeccable HDD performance, large drive (trivial).
4. Working USB2.0.
Basically, the lappie would work as a sniffer machine, being set between
2 points to capture traffic. Sometimes this would be an
ethernet<->wireless 'bridge', again to analyse traffic. I would imagine
some people here have used it for this kind of work...
On the other hand, any embedded boards that could pull this off? I
originally wished to get some Soekris boards from Wim@ but the boards
are almost all Fast Ethernet, not Gbit.
Preferred to have X working but if not, no big deal.
So far the Thinkpads seem to be the best choice given the reports.
Any ideas?
Thx,
P
