From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 28 12: 2:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D03837B400 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 12:02:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B87443E31 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 12:02:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g6SJ2L0S034087; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 14:02:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 14:02:21 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: John Wilson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jmw74@charter.net Subject: Re: What to do with a spare computer? Message-ID: <20020728190220.GC73369@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020728182328.11460.qmail@web13002.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020728182328.11460.qmail@web13002.mail.yahoo.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 28), John Wilson said: > I've recently obtained a used IBM PC300 PII/300 and started wondering > to myself what to do with it. My main system is connected to a > Linksys router, which functions as my gateway. I've turned off DHCP > on the Linksys so as to assign my main machine a pseudo-static IP. > > I was pondering the idea of settup up a caching nameserver on the > IBM. It would at least give me something to play with. But I'm also > fishing for other ideas in regard to other uses. Put a honking big squid cache on it. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message