you could just get a quad sbus ethernet adapter and a pcmcia to sbus
adapter and a pcmcia usb card.


On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 23:58:50 +0000, Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de> wrote:
> 
>         Hello,
> 
> because my good SPARCstation LX cannot serve me as a DSL router any more
> (it lacks the ability to connect the PPPoA USB DSL modem) I'm considering
> to buy an old PowerMac as replacement. I'm looking for a machine which ...
> 
> 1.) ... works fine under NetBSD.
> 2.) ... has an on board ethernet port.
> 3.) ... has either USB 1.1 or a free PCI slot.
> 4.) ... is faster than a SPARCstation LX (because the PPPoA stack is
>     userland based and needs more CPU power).
> 5.) ... is quiet.
> 6.) ... doesn't consume much power.
> 7.) ... isn't too expensive (this rules out the Mac Mini).
> 
> Nice to have:
> 
> 1.) 100MBit/Sec ethernet
> 2.) Support for serial console
> 
> Any recommendations?
> 
>         Kind regards
> 
> --
> Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/
>