[NTLUG:Discuss] OT- What DSL router do you recommend?

Ed Coates edcoates at nighthawk.dyndns.org
Sat Mar 8 20:54:22 CST 2003


Quoting Wayne Dahl <w.dahl4 at verizon.net>:

> On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 14:34, Rick Matthews wrote:
> 
> And that begs the question...will what I HAVE work?  I have an old
> Compaq CDS-92 that is now a P120 with 56 Megs mem, CD-ROM with a total
> of 1.6 Gigs of HD space on it.  It was originally a Win 3.1 box when I
> bought it, promptly upgraded to Win 95 and now has RH 5.2 (I think)
> loaded on it.  I wiped the Microsnot stuff off it and wanted to play
> with Linux and had an old copy I'd gotten somewhere.  When I had
> problems getting the CD player to work after I got the sound working on
> it, the general consensus of the list was to upgrade to RH 7.2 which was
> out at the time, but was unacceptable for that box.  
> 

Hi Wayne,

It should work, but I might beef up the RAM just a bit, and load a more recent 
version of a linux distribution.  My home network consists of a dual 50MHz Sun 
Sparc 20 with 128 MB RAM, and loaded with SuSE 7.3.  It acts as my firewall 
between the internet and my home LAN.  My second box is a dual Pentium 233 MHz 
with 192 MB RAM and loaded with SuSE 8.1.  It's acting as my web/mail/database 
server as well as a web based mail server.

Ed

-------------------------------------------------
This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/



More information about the Discuss mailing list