On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 12:09:21PM +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> >So using a 386 as a router and firewall, which it is perfectly capable > >of hardwarewise > > Is that really the case? > > a) Is anybody actually doing this, today? In our company, we are using * Two 386sx 16 MHz with 8 MB RAM as DNS (authoritative, secondary for a handful of domains) * A 386DX 40 MHz as "ISDN logging machine" (equipped with a ISA ISDN card, running isdnlog to make a log of all incoming and outgoing calls) * A 486 as backup server (using big IDE drives for data storage) All running woody and latest 2.2.x kernels. > b) Do you then have 10MB or 100MB ethernet in that computer? > Can you even put a 100MB ethernet card into the computer? > Does it have PCI? There are 100MB ISA cards, but the 386 can't use their full capacity. The machines I mentionned above use 10MB ISA ethernet cards. -- Andreas Trottmann Ideen Werft22 GmbH Tel +41 (0)56 210 91 37 Fax +41 (0)56 210 91 34 Mobile +41 (0)79 229 88 55