On 15 Dec 2002, Ben Russo wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 12:39, RedHat wrote:
> > I have some older computers the oldest being a 386 and I have a copy of
> > Linux 6.0. I would like to get some use out of these computers so I was
> > thinking I could install 6.0 on one and make it my firewall. Would this be a
> > good idea or should I stick with 8.0? Maybe set the others up as email and
> > bind servers?
>
> As long as you don't expect them to be speed burners you can run
> RedHat 8.0 on them. I wouldn't expect them to be the fastest boxes in
> the world, but for a cable or DSL line with a handfull of protected
> boxes, this should be fine.
A word of warning: Red Hat no longer supports installing on anything less
than an i586. It can be done, but you will need some help, as the i386
kernel is not even included in the RH8 distribution. You will need to get
the installer from the RULE Project at www.rule-project.org.
>
> For e-mail servers they may be a little slow compared to what people are
> used to today.
>
> The big thing is RAM, if you plan on running bind, and iptables masq,
> you need at *LEAST* 16MB of RAM, if you want to run a Mail server with a
> "useable" amount of speed I would recommend that you try to get 64MB of
> ram so that the box can cache the mailspools in RAM, otherwise your box
> is going to be thrashing swap.
>
>
>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
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