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Date:      Sun, 28 Jul 2002 14:02:21 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        John Wilson <jmw_ymail@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jmw74@charter.net
Subject:   Re: What to do with a spare computer?
Message-ID:  <20020728190220.GC73369@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020728182328.11460.qmail@web13002.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20020728182328.11460.qmail@web13002.mail.yahoo.com>

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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

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