----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher D Helmkamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PCI PowerMacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 9:30 PM Subject: Re: Questions on the AAUI and RJ-45 ports on the 7200
> I personally would go with the Dark Side solution, or get a harware > router, or run BSD on an old 68k Mac. Old 486's and 68k Macs are a > dime a dozen, and all the software you could ever imagine needing to > run an IP router is free in the name of Linux/BSD. Perhaps NetBSD or OpenBSD is the way to go. > I route my home > network and work network through an old 486 running FreeBSD, which is > slightly more complicated to configure than, say, Mandrake Linux. > The 486 with the RAM maxed has plenty of oopmh to route the > connection, run a simple caching web server (check out SQUID, it's > great!), and act as a filesharing bridge between my PCs and Macs. On > top of that, crontab on the 486 plays the campwide music in the > summer, Where is this camp? > and also uploads a semi-live image of our parade grounds to > our off-site web server. Incoming mail is also handled by this old > beast, as well as nightly backups to an off-site Sun storage unit. > It's a workhorse alright! Better yet, the hardware I needed I picked > out of a University dumpster, and the software was all free. It > resides in a clunky old IBM AT case. > Your HD's will contain this BSD installation. Phil Wong -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
