Richard, Camron, Thanks for the advice and offers of help. I have a old computer which would be great for this purpose. I think I'll update Slackware first (get 8.1) and see what I'll do from there..
Thanks, Shane Cameron Nikitiuk wrote: > If you need a machine I have a couple 486 machines around with minimal specs > as you were describing before...no CD, pretty small hard drive and I can > make sure it has a floppy in it. The only caviet I can see at this point is > that I believe they are Micro Channel (I think), but I know a place that has > gear that would kit it out nicely. I say a nice simple ethernet card > (likely 10 mbps speed) or a serial to ethernet adapter. I am contemplating > the latter with them sometime after I move to experiment with clustering or > setting up a small lab. > > Let me know if you are interested in the above. I would be willing to let > them go for a very small price. Need the cash and extra space right > now...moving is such a pain in the ass!!! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Jenniss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: August 19, 2002 11:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Me loves cable... > > If you can find an old machine, or have one thats always on, you can setup a > DHCP server on any machine on your network providing its in the same subnet. > I'm running a Linux router /w with dhcp client to telus, the router then > serves out 10.0.0.x ip's on my home network. > > I'm going to run a trimed down linux soon, to see how it works on a 386 and > a 486. heh its nice to ssh the router by typing "ssh 10.1" hmm a 386 might > be fast enough...I'm not sure, I've used it as a dailup router back in the > *shiver* 56k days. I recomend people try the Linux From Scratch approach to > learning Linux. From there you can get an idea as to what makes up Linux and > how to customize it to do what you want. I figure a router can be built on > less than 4MB hd space /w DHCP daemon and client. Maybe on one floppy. I > don't know. > > If you're interested I could help you set something like that up. > There's so much to learn, like puting Linux on this old laptop... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shane&Lisa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 10:51 PM > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Me loves cable... > > > Well this is the thing... > > Because of attaching the box to the router's dhcp i won't know what local > > address it'll get (I think...) > > Perhaps the router hands them out the same way all the time. > > > > Every time I tinker so far I get locked out of the router... > > > > Networking is fun... > > > > Shane > > > > > > Cameron Nikitiuk wrote: > > > > > Most of the retail (linksys, d-stink, smc, etc.) routers out there do > allow > > > port forwarding as well as DHC, firewall, NAT, etc. You could set it up > to > > > pass port 80 requests to the machine (192.186.2.?) that you are hosting > your > > > site on. This is commonly referred to a DMZ as well. Important thing > to > > > remember is to lock down that machine, especially if it is on your LAN, > > > behind the firewall. Lock it up tight so no one can use that machine to > > > attack your LAN. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Shane Clements [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: August 19, 2002 12:55 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: (clug-talk) Me loves cable... > > > > > > >>If you want to manually setup each > > > >>computers ip address (why?) you can still use dhcp, but setup your > > > >>dhcp.conf file to only request dns from the dhcp server. > > > > > > >>Just curious why you aren't using DHCP though? > > > > > > Well the short answer is 'cause I'm not sure what I'm doing...:^) > > > > > > Actually (perhaps I'm not going about it the right way...) I want to > > > eventually > > > run a DNS server and Apache to host my own site. I have a site hosted by > > > l33t.ca. But to learn more I thought I'd try it my own self. > > > > > > What I thought might work was to have the SMC box port forward requests > > > from 'mysite.com' to one of the boxes behind it. > > > > > > I thought that for stuff like that (ftp, http, openshell etc...) there > would > > > have to be fixed addresses at each machine. > > > > > > Perhaps no... > > > > > > Shane > >
