Re: Home Network

[Vin Jacob <vinjacob+debian-user@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 07:46:50AM +0300, Vin Jacob wrote:
> What is a good setup for two machines, Desktop P3 650 256MB RAM +
> Laptop 2.6MHz 512 RAM ?
> 
> The laptop is almost just to my liking, sid running a custom compiled
> 2.6.9. I have an internal winmodem in the laptop, which works. All I
> have right now is dial-up. On the desktop I have another USR Serial
> modem as well, although I do not have a network card in there yet.
> Planning to buy one soon.
> 
> I would highly appreciate some cues as to what would be an appropriate
> set up for this, in terms of networking, splitting tasks between the
> two machines etc. I currently have exim4, firehol, apache, squid etc.
> running well on this laptop. My /var/cache/apt has 3.1G of sarge/sid packages
> which I painfully downloaded over a dial-up at measly speeds. Need to
> put that to good use as well.
> 
> Thank you for your time.
> 
> --
> cheers,
> Vin

Yes, replying to myself for future notes :)

Decided to go for sarge since I couldn't find an OpenBSD iso large
enough for a networkless install.
 $ wget -cvd 
 http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/cd-images/debian-weekly/i386/sarge-i386-1.iso
 DEBUG output created by Wget 1.9.1 on linux-gnu.

 --09:57:07--
 http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/cd-images/debian-weekly/i386/sarge-i386-1.iso
            => `sarge-i386-1.iso'
	    Resolving ftp.acc.umu.se... 130.239.18.142,
	    ---request begin---
	    GET /pub/cd-images/debian-weekly/i386/sarge-i386-1.iso
	    HTTP/1.0\015
	    User-Agent: Wget/1.9.1\015
	    Host: ftp.acc.umu.se\015
	    Accept: */*\015
	    Connection: Keep-Alive\015
	    Range: bytes=293443727-\015
	    \015
	    ---request end---
	    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... HTTP/1.1 206
	    Partial Content
	    Connection: Keep-Alive
	    Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:04:05 GMT
	    Server: Apache/2.0.49 (Unix)
	    Last-Modified: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 16:16:07 GMT
	    ETag: "83afd-2800f000-8153ffc0"
	    Accept-Ranges: bytes
	    Content-Length: 377706353
	    Content-Range: bytes 293443727-671150079/671150080
	    Content-Type: application/octet-stream
	    Length: 671,150,080 (377,706,353 to go)
	    [application/octet-stream]

	    47% [++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++==>	    ] 318,231,807    5.31K/s ETA 18:51:25

Started last night infact. 18 hours left :)

Looking at this for now,
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/networking/homegateway.html


--
cheers
Vin