I need a bigger switch. hmm, down the road yes, at the moment I have a few projects I'm still working with. I'm in the process of figuring out NFS.
[fast box] nfs client, ssh deamon. || || [slow box] nfs daemon, ssh client. I mount / of the slow box on the fast box, ssh into the fast box, chroot, and do my compiling there (: Or even just work at my fast box (p3 800 512mb ram) to build stuff for my slower machines. Very simple to do actually, you create a bash script in place of uname, move uname to uname.orig. in the new uname script, Sed out any i686 and replace it for what ever hardware you are working on. (this exists in the mounted file system, the chrooted environment) Building kernels, or even yikes.... glibc or XFree on a slow machine is, well, insane heh. SSSWWWAAAPPPPPPPP Where those boxes may come in handy, is when I want to setup a mail server, some sort of Windows user info server (don't know much about that) password server for the linux boxes, maybe a font server...I'll make and break a little of everything, just hope I have enough power, LOL. building a gcc 3.2 Linux atm. Bleeding edge heh. cheers, Richard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cameron Nikitiuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 11:44 PM Subject: RE: (clug-talk) Me loves cable... > 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 > > >
