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From: mess-mate <messmate@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: ot - learning heterogenous networking (slightly long)
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:07:31 +0100
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On Monday 11 February 2002 02:45, you wrote:
| hi,
|
| i am using freebsd since about 3-4 years, from 3.4-stable.  and on
| that experience alone, it's hard to find a job either as a help
| desk staff or a junior unix system administrator.
|
| so, i am thinking creating and maintaining a network of at least 3
| os'es on 3 different machines:
|
| - freebsd 4-stable on current dell i5000e
| - some linux distribution on a drive shared by windows 95 on a
|   old/low spec ibm aptiva currently stored in attic
| - solaris/sunOs on yet-to-buy used/cheap sun hardware
| - mac os x, along w/ netbsd, on yet-to-buy desktop or laptop
|
| i can see sun hardware purchase in near future but not any apple
| hardware any time soon.
|
| does anybody have suggestions for a linux distribution, as i
| haven't ever touched any?

Get mandrake 8.1

|
| i will be using freebsd/dell for the everyday work; linux & sun
| could run lpd, postfix, apache, and for remote syslog logging.
|
| dell laptop has two type II card slots, a serial port, a parallel
| port, and one usb port; aptiva has 1-3 pci slots available, a
| serial port, a parallel port, maybe 1-2 usb port(s).
|
| i have a 3com 4-port ethernet-modem hub; a 10base-T ethernet pcmcia
| card, and linksys pcmlm 56 modem+ethernet (only modem works); a 56k
| external modem.  connection to the outside world is possible only
| via dial-up modem.  oh, and a ps2+pcl5 laser printer.
|
| what other hardware would i be needing to connect a freebsd i386
| laptop, linux i386 desktop, and yet-unseen-cheap sun hardware/os to
| each other via ethernet?
|
| any other tips will be much appreciated.
|
|  -  parv

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mess-mate


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