Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 21:33:37 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: School Server & PicoBSD Message-ID: <XFMail.981106213337.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <36433B8E.78D0E8C1@aei.ca>
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On 06-Nov-98 Malartre wrote: > Hi, I'm near 16 years old :-) Hi mate, 20 here =) > I would like to show at my school how FreeBSD is powerful, but also get > some technical skills with servers. If the admin let me play with is > stupid machine of course.. That's always the issue... Be careful, if ye get caught while not having the authorisation ye might be in for some surprises =\ > We have something like 70-90 computers, (30 Macs, 30 WinNT and 30 Win95. > I don't know why they buyed so much systems: it simply don't work > properly. What they using as default protocol? TCP/IP? > When we are a class of people on the net at the same time, it can take > up to 10 minute to load a page. The server is ... a WinNT+a hub > solution. So that means a 10 or 100 MBit shared uplink to the workstations. Class being 20 people? > Has I never worked with WinNT and with Ethernet system, I would like to > know: > > -Is it a problem with Ethernet (I think they use 10baseT), WinNT or > both? Nah, Ethernet without SAP/RIP broadcast crap is very adequate and fast... > -Would PicoBSD change that? (talking about speed) Don't really think so... The hub is a problem IMHO... At my job we have a dedicated Shiva router for the uplink to UUNet and packetswitch it to the backbone... > Because I would like to bring PicoBSD, simply enter it and reboot. That might work. The booting that is... > The only job I want him to do is to act has a server(gateway?) to access > internet. > The main problem are: > -I don't currently know the hardware of the server. But it's not > bullshit I think. Certainly a P200 and + Hardware might be a problem... > -I never worked with Ethernet, I don't know the architecture of the > school system. Why should Ethernet stop ye? it's simply the cabling and lowerlevel encapsulation of data... > -PicoBSD would not have a swap partition (which could bring some > problem, neh?) Especially for WWW-proxies... > Now, could it be possible to: > Simply reboot with PicoBSD, configure the kernel (I know how to do > that), configure the Ethernet(that's the real new part), reboot, > working. Configure the Ethernet? Not needed... Nope... Most likely, since it is one server doing the Internet load it will need a www-proxy like Squid or the likes... > It would be a demonstration. > > Would it be simple? Depends on which aspect ye referring too. Booting? Aye. Overal picture? Nay. > Should I use the router version? Depends on what the Internet uplink is. HTH some, --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl Junior Network/Security Specialist FreeBSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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