I'd look a a pII or original pentium machine as the router... No point wasting a semi-decent machine on that.
Then a distro like ipcop, or my favourite m0n0wall (www.m0n0.ch/wall) which is really nice. Or you could use one of those for the firewall and server in the same machine, using clarkconnect or a standard distro with some firewalling turned on. -----Original Message----- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 7 March 2005 7:15 p.m. To: clug Subject: Re: install a server-router On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 00:22 -0500, Bryan Frechette wrote: > Hi, i need help, i would like to know how i could setup a router, > email > server and file server, i have to choices of machine and 2 distrib for > each machine, > > 1. Imac G3 350 Mhz Rev C > 288 Mb Ram > 40 gig HD > > 2. Celeron 1.3 Ghz > 256 Mb Ram > 40 Gig HD I have a machine of roughly those specs as a server. It goes fine. distro is personal choice, i use gentoo on my server. if i didn't i'd probably get to grips with debian and be loving it. for a router get a p2 or 3, whatever is cheap, and install ipcop. period. no other recommendations here sorry! If you seriously want to use those machines and only those machines, I suppose you could ipcop the celeron, and use the omac as a server, but thats seems to be overkill on both accounts - ie you don't need a celeron 1.3G for a router, and an imac just seems too desktoppy to be used as a server... > > My net connection is the equivalent of your NZ jetstream ADSL > connection > at 3.0 Mbps with PPPOE > > The 2 distrib for the mac are yellow dog linux 4.0 and Debian Mac > Sarge and for pc Fedora Core 3 and Debian Sarge PC > > Also, i need to know that i can use CUPS with my printer a HP deskjet > 3745 USB on pc or mac > http://www.linuxprinting.org - go to the database and see for yourself :) > Thank you > Bryan Frechette > > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
