Oliver Ob wrote:
after again more and more differences oon the german list, on trustfully come to you and ask you...
I got some old 486dx33-isa computer as a present. it has 2400 baud internal, optics at 8000 cdrom, 2x 200 mb at hdd, isa ne2000 included.
Now the question:
As we write 2001 already, what use has one still got for such an old thing to be used under linux console environment.
Server, of course. The main server here is: 486/33 12MB RAM 180MB HDD SMC Ultra network card And it does this: firewalling/routing/NAT DNS DHCP mail diald NTP
hope you don't treat this as a joke-question.
Certainly not taken as such.
I shall today give you more information as I did before to rise possibility of adequate answers:
486 runs with 4 mb - is that enough for gateway-firewall-routing purposes?
4MB of RAM shouldn't be a problem for gateway-firewall-routing. You may not want to do *everything* that I do above, though, unless you aquire an 8MB stick of RAM. You can also use these as email terminals. You could have one sitting in every room of the building where you live ;-) I've got a whole stack of these things which are in the process of being 'beowulfed'. There's another use if you've got a few... Bye, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\