On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 13:53, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 11:53, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 09:09, Olwen Williams wrote: > > > We installed 1.4.0 b8 at work yesterday. But I will grab it later on. > > > > > > Nick Rout wrote: > > > > olwen, and others interested, 1.4.0b9 now available.... > > Any ideas why it marked 'b9', does it work properly? > > its marked b9 because it is a beta (hence "b") and it comes after beta 8 > (hence "9") > > Less facetiously, it works quite well (actually thats a lie, b8 works > quite well, b9 should be better, I'll let you know. > > > Will IPCop still function on the archeological '486 I'm using at present? > > Tell us more about the machine? > > I run it on a PII 350 MHz with 64 M RAM. > > It does not use swap, or go above about 1.5% cpu usage.
I'll add that those figures were with squid proxying turned off and snort turned off.I have turned them both on now, so i'll be interested to see what happens. Of course 90% of the time we are out of the house, at school/work, or asleep. Also, from the 1.4.0b9 release announcement: "We're ever closer to releasing, just a few more bugs to close down on SourceForge. Please keep testing." I have now installed beta9 and it took all of 5 minutes, ether booting off the network and loading the tarball via http. YMMV, I have done it a few times now in the 1.4 beta series. I used a floppy backup of all the settings, so there is no futzing around, it just goes as previously configured. It all seems pretty up to date, the kernel is 2.4.27, apache is 1.3.31. If anyone would like a cd of ipcop 1.4 beta 9 (or any of the earlier 1.4 betas) let me know. I can also assist with installs if fed beer and pizza :-) I recommend a low end pentium with pci rather than isa network cards, mainly cos the pci ones are just so much better detected. > > Machines are so cheap these days that when I upgraded from my previous > ipcop box my prime aim was small and quiet, the compaq with the above > specs was $99. >
