I found this computer in a city trash can here in the Great White North when I went to my current employer to apply for work. It was dirty and dusty, with no hard drive. I cleaned it up and although the on-board SATA wouldn't function, I hooked up an IDE disk and it's now running OpenBSD quite nicely.
Yesterday I just installed a 6-port SATA 2 PCI Host Card w/ RAID and another couple of NICS. I'm composing a new pf.conf file for a new home network. I don't think I care to use the on-board VIA VT6105 RhineIII networking chip. I currently have a wireless home router, but I want to experiment with using OpenBSD for a gateway. I think I'm wanting to set up something along the lines of what's on pg. 43 of "The Book of PF," by Hansteen. I'm also wondering if I could use my current 4-port router as a switch and perhaps still use it for wireless purposes. I would like to see if I can use the wireless for the wife's computer, but if I have to run an ethernet cable, I would try that. By the way, I've run pfSense in the past, but I feel it's important to understand to a fine degree what my network is doing and not doing. So on this 10/100 network, I'd have one nic connected to the internet and one nic to feed to wireless router acting as a switch for internal network. OpenBSD would be serving DHCP. If I can get this going, I might save up for a gigabit network card, then I have to ask myself if I need to run a newer system to take advantage of gigabit speeds. I'm seeing a bunch of information for pf.conf on the web, but I'm studying through Hansteen's book and the man page very carefully. I'm not in a rush to roll out this OpenBSD gateway. It's tempting to just copy and paste, but I'm going to study "The Book of PF" more, and I just started reading "Absolute OpenBSD," by Lucas. regards, Daniel Villarreal On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:15 PM, alexandr knyazev < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Like a questioner, may i ask you one question. > > Is there some history about hardware which you get for free from users. > > For example, may be you sold some tower or slim for food at the begging. I > don't ask you what now, but it's too interest and will be great to see some > page, where you track your hardware which you sent to community to help, > etc. > > > I mean, some funny history about such hardware, which you get, but didn't > know what to do with it. > OR > I mean, some funny history about such hardware, which you was getting, but > was not knew what to do with it. > -----------------Sorry for my bad English. > > Some what you change for beer or something. Could you share your personal > experience around this at start of project? > When you were alone, but something already have gave result. > Some people have sent you help... > Some hardware. > What did you do with it? > > I think about some project at mobile industry, only with open source and > reciprocity, some hippy's world where i can work in full power, and do not > think so much about money, new hardware, by and for users. Anonymously, > without connect to any corporations or goverment structure. > > Your skills, experience and some wishes will be great for me. > > For example, some people sent eight iPhone's the second generation to me . > I will sell seven at one time, when i am a developer of some cross-platform > systems. > > > As I can see, you already meet such situation. > So, some page, where is the hardware, what happens, who have burned it > already, why, etc, its would be popular part of openbsd site. With history > by photos, comments, some logs. > Did you you think like me? > > Greetings.
