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Re: feasability check - P133 as router/server
- To: Alon Altman <alon(at-nospam)vipe.technion.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: feasability check - P133 as router/server
- From: Ira Abramov <lists-linux-il(at-nospam)ira.scso.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 07:34:12 +0300 (IDT)
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On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Alon Altman wrote:
> My questions are:
> 1) Is the P133 with 48Mb of RAM strong enough for this plan?
certainly up to the task, if disk access times are not crucial (i.e. if
you are not going to play ASF movies out of it or access other large
files that need fast load time).
at the company I worked for in 1998, I had an old VA-Research Pentium 90
with 32 meg, then upgraded to 96 meg run:
- 70 gigs on ultrawide SCSI
- Samba for 30 windows machines (sales, HR, finance)
- NFS for 30 unix machines (linux WS, various porting machines of 7 unix
flavors)
- mail relaying, pop, imap, smtp.
- intranet webserver, including random CGIs and stuff.
- DDS tape changer backing up local and remote filesystems (using
AMANDA)
- samba serving 4 busy printers (sales people printing lots of color
brochures and slides, etc.)
it ran RedHat 5.1 at the time.
we needed absolute reliability, because it was the nerve center of the
company. Email, RCS repositories of the code base, sales documents, the
WORKS, and good old "king" did the job.
> 2) Can the HP710 printer be shared for linux/windows use easily?
no problem whatsoever. if you want to go all the way, there is even a
way your samba server will export the printer driver to new machines
getting hooked up, just like a windows machine.
> 3) Is the switch with one NIC configration for the router OK?
that one I kind of hate. for security's sake I would prefer a second
NIC, as I have no idea what ADSL works like. I once installed something
similar on someone's home cable internet connection, @home gave him a
real IP and I did NAT (then Masquarading) with a single interface to
10.x.x.x, and discovered I was on a private LAN with the rest of the
neighbourhood all of a sudden (the modem worked like a bridge!) and I
found people running a BBS here and a quake server there on the 10.
network, and @home never knew. funny but definitly insecure. linux
compatable 10BaseT cards are about 100-120 NIS these days, so buy a
cheap one for the ADSL and another, 100BaseT for a direct, crossover
connection to your win machine for maximum throughput (cheaper than
getting a hub anyway)
good luck!
--
In the zone
Ira Abramov
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