On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 04:34, Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote: > > Hei, > > A friend of mine is going to have a broadband connection at home. He > already has a Pentium II 350 Mhz that he uses as desktop and server > running Red Hat. He uses the machine for some personal development and > wants to use it as a web/file server once he gets his broadband > connection at the end of the month. The Red Hat machine is in his > basement, and he will use it as a gateway for the laptop running WXP he > got from his work, so that he can surf from his apartment while hiding > geek stuff away from his computer unfriendly girl-friend :) > > He managed to get hold on a pentium 90 with 64 Mo and a 3 Go Hard disks. > He is interested in loading Debian on it, but we don't have a perfect > use for it right now. > > If he uses the new machine as file/web server, the small hard disk > capacity will limit it. He can limit its use for NAT/forewall etc.. and > use his current server as file/web server. But then he needs to have > both machines on all the time. > > We are trying to find a use for this machine. > I had two ideas: > - backup/replicate of the server (in case) > - honey pot but I don't think he will be interested in it. > > Any other idea? > > Jerome > > > --
I used to run a Pentium 90 with 80 MB RAM and 5.2 GB disk (between two ide devices) and I found it was fine for handling broadband traffic, firewall/gateway, and general Internet tasks, but it ***slowed*** when servicing a 100 Mbit Ethernet card for extended demands in addition to those tasks, or tried presenting streaming video. My suggestion is that it would be best as the gateway/firewall box, and keep it away from tasks involving X11 if you want it to continue to be responsive. Offhand, unless you are dealing with a small, stable file collection, it doesn't make a lot of sense to use a machine with a small amount of disk space relative to the other machines as a file server - it makes little sense to put the files anywhere but local, unless they must be shared, under those circumstances. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
