From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 28 11:58:20 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 A6B1F37B400 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 11:58:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-65-71-135-137.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.71.135.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FC4D43E6A for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 11:55:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Received: from sagea (sagea [192.168.0.3]) by sage-one.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g6SItXB36448; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 13:55:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020728135532.011ab608@mail.sage-one.net> X-Sender: jackstone@mail.sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 13:55:32 -0500 To: John Wilson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Jack L. Stone" Subject: Re: What to do with a spare computer? In-Reply-To: <20020728182328.11460.qmail@web13002.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 At 11:23 AM 7.28.2002 -0700, John Wilson wrote: >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 > Give details about your current setup and what you do with it, otherwise, I would only be guessing based on what I would do with it here in my system.... DNS, mailserver, FTP server, etc..... ....hmmmm. Interesting. Had "charter.net" on my bad list for spam. Had to lift it to send this. Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message