On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 05:04:21PM -0400, Jerry Human wrote:
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> B) Second I was wondering if a 386DX25 with a 340 meg hard drive and
> 32 meg of memory is a fast enough machine to use for a firewall and
> print server? I intend to network all my older machines and since the
> old 386 is still working ...
I would say yes. The 386/33 (16MB) I was using as firewall was fast
enough, even though it didn't have any cache. However, I'm not too sure
about having the printserver in parallel on that machine. I haven't
tried it, but what bogged my 386 down (and caused me to swap it for
something more powerful) was intensive use of procmail on mail-download.
That seemed to bring it to the limit.
If you go down that road, you should definitely spend some time in
tuning that machine, i.e. compile your own kernel (toss out all you
don't need), preferably as monolithic as possible (some elements *have*
to be modules, especially when your doing masquerading - at least that
was true for the 2.0.3x kernels I was using - don't know about 2.2.x),
shut down all services you don't need (not only more secure but also
less taxing on the box), remove the virtual terminals you don't need...
You get the picture.
> C) Third if I use the 386 should I get an older version of RH or use
> the 6.2 that I have now?
My guess would be that RHL 5.x (I was using 5.2) can be gotten a bit
smaller than 6.x, but other than that I don't see why you shouldn't be
able to use 6.2 as well.
HTH,
Thomas
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