On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 11:43:49PM -0500, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote:
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> I currently have set up the following: a 486 with 20 MB of RAM as
> my gateway (to nothing), a 486 with 20 MB of ram as my primary
> DNS, a 386 with 8 MB of RAM as my secondary (I know, I know),
> a 486 with 12 MB of RAM as my DHCP server (in construction),
> and another 486 with 12 MB of RAM as my mail server (running
> FreeBSD and in the process of setup as well).
>
> What I want to do is setup the DialD daemon (I avidly read the
> HowTo as if it was honey), and I'm wondering... could a 56K
> modem (external) work on the 486 running as a gateway?
If this thing is going to be just a demand dialing router type thing I
would suggest taking a look at:
http://mpsdr/unx.nu/MINI/
It's a purpose built mini distro designed to do just that plus a cacheing
DNS. Runs off of a single 3.5" floppy - doesn't even need a hard drive
at all. I have it running here on a 486DX/2-66 machine with 16 megs RAM.
Took me all of about 5 minutes to setup and has worked perfectly right from
the start. [if it sounds like I like this thing, I DO! A LOT!]
> No, before I get yelled, I did check the UART on the machine, and
> it says 16550A. This is because the computer has both one CD-
> ROM and two 250MB HD, since this card allows it first boot the
> computer and then it boots by itself and assignes IRQs for the
> various HDs. Anyway, looking at the UART one would assume
> that I could run an external 56K modem.
>
> I say external as from what I understand, internal modems suck
> CPU power, and then there is this evil I haven't had a chance to
> see yet, called Winmodems, which work only on Windows.
Not all internal modems are Winmodems. The router I outlined above is
using an internal modem quite happily. However, it can be difficult to
find a true *hardware* internal modem. A *very* good site to assist in
that venture is:
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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