Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 12:49:24 -0600 From: "Jim McAtee" <jmcatee@mediaodyssey.com> To: "John Wilson" <jmw_ymail@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What to do with a spare computer? Message-ID: <011e01c23667$7ddaae10$272fa8ce@jim> References: <20020728182328.11460.qmail@web13002.mail.yahoo.com>
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Make a firewall out of it, though you don't need that much horsepower for a small network. Your LinkSys probably isn't doing much in the way of packet filtering, so you can increase your security considerably and probably eliminate the LinkSys altogether. Certainly a good learning experience if you've never done this before. A caching DNS server is ideal to run on a gateway like this. Set it up as a development server if you do web and database development. Takes the load off your local machine if you're doing much database work. Or set it up as a local file server. Not much in the 'something to play with' category, but if it's got room for a few hard disks, throw a couple of big IDE drives in it and stash your mp3 and p-rn collection on the thing. ;-) Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Wilson" <jmw_ymail@yahoo.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; <jmw74@charter.net> Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 12:23 PM Subject: What to do with a spare computer? > Good day, > > 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. > > If you had an old PII just sitting there all lonely > looking, what would you do with it? :p > > Thanks for the suggestions, > John Wilson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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