On 15/04/2004, at 6:39 AM, Boris Herman wrote:
Hello list,
I am planning to make a cable modem router out of a 1st powermac. Since first I thought of a 6100 due to its compactness. Someone suggested even earlier model. I have a IIsi, a IIvx and a Performa 475. The latter is of my great interest since it is a 68040 (LC), it sports a LC PDS card with RJ45 ethernet port and is even more compact than 6100. I do have a 7.5.3 on it but have thought of installing debian 68k linux. Before reminding me to post this on another list here are my questions:
I think I need two ethernet ports on the machine - one that will connect directly to the cable modem with a fixed ip and another that will be connected to a switch and feed the LAN with it. How do I get two ethernet ports on any machine that sports only one expansion slot? Of all pre-PCI machines only the IIvx has several NuBus slots. Could an appletalk-ethernet hardware bridge be of use? Is there perhaps a NuBus ethernet card that sports two separate interfaces?
There's a recent discussion about using an older mac as a router (and other things) in a similar way on the appletalk australia forums at http://www.appletalk.com.au/forums/index.php?showtopic=278 .
You could use a scsi->ethernet adaptor on the LC475 under macos, along with an LC-PDS ethernet card too. As far as I know there's no driver for the scsi->ethernet under Linux. For linux, the 6100 is a world of performance above any of the 68k machines, and with a nubus adaptor and a nubus ethernet card installed along with its onboard ethernet, it would be the ideal choice out of those machines.
Once they're set up a 68k linux machine should work well, but you really need patience in the install and maintenance side of things!
dana -- http://www.danamania.com/
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