Re: [aclug-L] Recommendation!!

[Mohammad Islam <sohel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

Thanks for the great reply. Seemed like i can make a small personal
project out of all this:))

I have a P100 with 80 megs of ram that currently serving as
proxy/masquarade/samba/print/file server for my LAN of three computers.
I want to take off all these services from it and put them on the 486.
That's why i was asking whether its a good idea or not. Judging from
your answer, i suppose that wouldn't be a problem. 

For the moment, i am interested to know how i can setup network
monitoring on a system mentioned(486dx). Hmm would be possible to make a
short topic on network monitoring on one of the aclug meeting?

I wouldn't mind using Debian or Slackware. Although i would prefer
Debian.

Again, Thanks for the great reply.

Regards,

Mohammed

John Goerzen wrote:

> That machine will be quite usable for things like:
> 
>  * telnet server
>  * FTP server
>  * small Web server; check out the "boa" webserver
>  * network monitoring like you said
>  * smallish mail server
>  * most any text-mode app, but would probably need more space for
>    development, and LaTeX would be slow
>  * print server
>  * samba or NFS server
>  * firewall, proxy, router, or masquerade box
>  * log server (though a bigger HD would be good)
>  *
> 
> It will make a quite capable network monitor.  If you have specific
> things that you are trying to do, let us know, and we can give you
> specific recommendations for those.
> 
> It is also possible to use it for these things, but it will run very
> slowly:
> 
>  * X and graphics
>  * programming (but need more HD space for that, most likely)
>  * typesetting
> 
> For a machine with this configuration, I would not recommend RedHat.
> I would suggest Debian or Slackware, depending on your specific needs.
>
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