On Sunday 09 September 2001 01:07 am, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 09:42:34PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Nathan E Norman wrote: <snip> > > I maintain (more or less) four boxes ... a celeron (my home machine), > an athlon (my work desktop), a 486 (my firewall), and a p90 (a server > with no portfolio). I compile all the kernels on the athlon because, > well, it's just too painful to sit around waiting for the other > machines to finish the job. The p90 and especially the 486 are > practically useless while compiling a kernel. Since the athlon has > the biggest (and fastest) disks, I need kernel-source trees on one > machine rather than spread all over the place (let's see, I downloaded > the ipsec patch where? Did I patch this tree, or was that the other > box?) This is a significant advantage.
I have a 486 firewall myself. My connectivity on other machines more or less stops when I do things like run dpkg or the gShield firewall script (iptables) loads on it. Is this normal, or is it just my particular 486 33? (Oh, and I use kernel-package on the faster machine to compile kernels for the 486 -- Just so this is somewhat on topic.) Thanks. > Cheers,
