[SWLUG] Re: Giving up Windows

[Gerald Davies]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 15:24:11 +0000, Gerald Davies <gerald.davies at gmail.com> > 
> i wish i could say the same.  i tried that and quite a few other
> tutorials, but i think i'm a few distros before things got supported.
> the box is a p200 with 64megs of ram and i'm a bit sceptical about
> installing anything remotely new on it. i'm one of those
> geeks/cheapskates that likes to get the most out of hardware and uses
> it for years :-)
> 
> i dunno, i'll wait and see tonight if my DSL is activated before
> making decisions.
> 
> i know i'm asking a lot, but do any of the modern ADSL wifi routers
> come with some form of basic DNS capability?   (i'd miss my crappy
> p200 doing DNS for me, unless of course i run it on something else).
> I've noticed there are "super" wifi routers around like the netgear.
> they mention DNS but i don't know if they mean "it'll forward requests
> to your dns servers of choice"...etc.  Also static-IP addresses in the
> DHCP would be useful too for obvious reasons. heh.
> 
> Any recommendations whilst I'm on this subject?
> 
> g
> 


btw, and yes - on dialup i did have DNS/DHCP/WIFI, etc running.  a bit
OTT, but nevermind.