RE: [Cooker-firewall] Re: SNF 8.2 with Pentium II
At 04:22 PM 4/15/02, you wrote: >I believe that Intel never made a Pentium II that actually did run at >133/166MHz... my guesses it that it HAS to be an old "Classic Pentium" - >This also makes sense, since people reports that it works fine on >Pentium II, but not on a Pentium running at 133/166MHz. I also tried to >make the secure-kernel work on my dual Pentium Classic 200MHz... but it >failed :-) > >-Ernst Ernst, Good call! I'had forgotten how old that machine is. Now that I think about it, it was waiting for me when I started a new job in August 1996 and it became mine after the company closed down. Here's x86info from two of my machines: My firewall machine: x86info v1.7. Dave Jones 2001 Feedback to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Found 1 CPU Family: 5 Model: 2 Stepping: 11 Type: 0 [Pentium 75-200 Original OEM] My Pentium III: x86info v1.7. Dave Jones 2001 Feedback to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Found 1 CPU Family: 6 Model: 7 Stepping: 3 Type: 0 [Pentium III (Katmai) [kC0] Original OEM] David
RE: [Cooker-firewall] Re: SNF 8.2 with Pentium II
I believe that Intel never made a Pentium II that actually did run at 133/166MHz... my guesses it that it HAS to be an old "Classic Pentium" - This also makes sense, since people reports that it works fine on Pentium II, but not on a Pentium running at 133/166MHz. I also tried to make the secure-kernel work on my dual Pentium Classic 200MHz... but it failed :-) -Ernst -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of David Relson Sent: 15. april 2002 22:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker-firewall] Re: SNF 8.2 with Pentium II At 03:35 PM 4/15/02, dave lers wrote: >FWIW in my case its a PII 450, maybe that makes a difference. >Linux version 2.4.18-6mdksecure >CPU0: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) >SMP motherboard not detected. >CPU clock speed is 448.8956 MHz. > >It would be nice if it could run on PI's as well. I was running the Astaro >firewall on a P75 until their system requirements skyrocketed. I've been >waiting for the Mdk 2.4 firewall ever since. Dave, Have you tried building your own kernel? It's not too hard to generate a configuration that's right for your hardware. Having some free time, I've just done that. It took a while to disable all the features that I know I won't use - mostly for hardware that I've never owned. I have no idea how a PII 450 differs from a 133 (other than the obvious speed difference). Cheers! David
Re: [Cooker-firewall] Re: SNF 8.2 with Pentium II
i'm currently running my snf 8.2 (8.2-7) on a dell dimension xps 133c (specs here http://docs.us.dell.com/docs/dta/XPSPCMT/0001.htm , it's a p54c pentium chip) with 64 megs of ram and it runs fine. the only problems i've had for it is that it still has a problem with the caching nameserver not actually starting and it also doesn't appear to add the package needed for adsl (pppoe) to work. after i added it myself she runs like a charm. -Z
Re: [Cooker-firewall] Re: SNF 8.2 with Pentium II
At 03:35 PM 4/15/02, dave lers wrote: >FWIW in my case its a PII 450, maybe that makes a difference. >Linux version 2.4.18-6mdksecure >CPU0: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) >SMP motherboard not detected. >CPU clock speed is 448.8956 MHz. > >It would be nice if it could run on PI's as well. I was running the Astaro >firewall on a P75 until their system requirements skyrocketed. I've been >waiting for the Mdk 2.4 firewall ever since. Dave, Have you tried building your own kernel? It's not too hard to generate a configuration that's right for your hardware. Having some free time, I've just done that. It took a while to disable all the features that I know I won't use - mostly for hardware that I've never owned. I have no idea how a PII 450 differs from a 133 (other than the obvious speed difference). Cheers! David
Re: [Cooker-firewall] Re: SNF 8.2 with Pentium II
>> > david> Recently, I've been following the "SNF 8.2 on P166 and >> > P200..." david> discussion and I've been wondering what the actual >> > problem is. Is it david> that the 2.4.18-6mdk as compiled for >> > Mandrake 8.2 won't run on a david> Pentium II? If not this, what is >> > the real problem? >> > >> > Problem is that secure kernel is compiled for Dual PIII, changing >> > that back to something more reasonable for a firewall. >> >>2.4.18-6mdksecure works fine on a single PII with the 8.2 standard >>distro > kernel. Given your info, I wonder why problems have been reported for > P166 and P200 and why Mandrake's secure kernel maintainer seemed to > agree that the configuration is problematical. FWIW in my case its a PII 450, maybe that makes a difference. Linux version 2.4.18-6mdksecure CPU0: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) SMP motherboard not detected. CPU clock speed is 448.8956 MHz. It would be nice if it could run on PI's as well. I was running the Astaro firewall on a P75 until their system requirements skyrocketed. I've been waiting for the Mdk 2.4 firewall ever since.
Re: [Cooker-firewall] Re: SNF 8.2 with Pentium II
At 01:50 PM 4/15/02, Dave Lers wrote: > > david> Recently, I've been following the "SNF 8.2 on P166 and P200..." > > david> discussion and I've been wondering what the actual problem is. > > Is it david> that the 2.4.18-6mdk as compiled for Mandrake 8.2 won't > > run on a david> Pentium II? If not this, what is the real problem? > > > > Problem is that secure kernel is compiled for Dual PIII, changing that > > back to something more reasonable for a firewall. > >2.4.18-6mdksecure works fine on a single PII with the 8.2 standard distro Dave, Thank you for that info. I'd been thinking of taking Mandrake's source rpm and compiling it myself, to ensure that I get a PII compatible kernel. Given your info, I wonder why problems have been reported for P166 and P200 and why Mandrake's secure kernel maintainer seemed to agree that the configuration is problematical. David
Re: [Cooker-firewall] Re: SNF 8.2 with Pentium II
> david> Recently, I've been following the "SNF 8.2 on P166 and P200..." > david> discussion and I've been wondering what the actual problem is. > Is it david> that the 2.4.18-6mdk as compiled for Mandrake 8.2 won't > run on a david> Pentium II? If not this, what is the real problem? > > Problem is that secure kernel is compiled for Dual PIII, changing that > back to something more reasonable for a firewall. 2.4.18-6mdksecure works fine on a single PII with the 8.2 standard distro
