Re: kernel 2.4.x and unstable/ Kernels

[Jason Boxman <jasonb@edseek.com>]

On Sunday 09 September 2001 01:07 am, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 09:42:34PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote:
> > Nathan E Norman wrote:
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>
> I maintain (more or less) four boxes ... a celeron (my home machine),
> an athlon (my work desktop), a 486 (my firewall), and a p90 (a server
> with no portfolio).  I compile all the kernels on the athlon because,
> well, it's just too painful to sit around waiting for the other
> machines to finish the job.  The p90 and especially the 486 are
> practically useless while compiling a kernel.  Since the athlon has
> the biggest (and fastest) disks, I need kernel-source trees on one
> machine rather than spread all over the place (let's see, I downloaded
> the ipsec patch where?  Did I patch this tree, or was that the other
> box?)  This is a significant advantage.

I have a 486 firewall myself.  My connectivity on other machines more or less 
stops when I do things like run dpkg or the gShield firewall script 
(iptables) loads on it.  Is this normal, or is it just my particular 486 33?

(Oh, and I use kernel-package on the faster machine to compile kernels for 
the 486 -- Just so this is somewhat on topic.)

Thanks.

> Cheers,