On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 12:39, RedHat wrote: > I have some older computers the oldest being a 386 and I have a copy of > Linux 6.0. I would like to get some use out of these computers so I was > thinking I could install 6.0 on one and make it my firewall. Would this be a > good idea or should I stick with 8.0? Maybe set the others up as email and > bind servers?
As long as you don't expect them to be speed burners you can run RedHat 8.0 on them. I wouldn't expect them to be the fastest boxes in the world, but for a cable or DSL line with a handfull of protected boxes, this should be fine. For e-mail servers they may be a little slow compared to what people are used to today. The big thing is RAM, if you plan on running bind, and iptables masq, you need at *LEAST* 16MB of RAM, if you want to run a Mail server with a "useable" amount of speed I would recommend that you try to get 64MB of ram so that the box can cache the mailspools in RAM, otherwise your box is going to be thrashing swap. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
