I would like to lay claim to as many as you would be willing to give to one
person (Not to be greedy so if more people want them, I'll take one) =))
They are good for fileservers, dhcp servers, WINS server, PDCs and lot of
other things(often all at the same time)...i486s have more horsepower than
you think, and for many applications its not the CPU that is the bottleneck
but the bandwidth of the IDE bus and ISA bus etc etc...so not often best for
fileservers if you need highbandwidth file server. often though, its enough
for small networks...
I'll take any 386s you got too =)
Partly its for nostalgia that I like old hardware...I like to be able to show
people my killer network, and THEN tell them what's driving it. I like to put
procs like dhcpd, WINS and other like stuff on the slower machines so I can
conserve my procs on my faster machines...I have an AMD700 w/512 MB RAM which
is my Gnome Workstation, a DELL Optiplex piii866 w256 MB RAM which is the
backend fileserver for my network. I use it as my fileserver because it has
the fastest buses, and its video capability has MUCH to be desired with or
without a replacement vid card. It server web file to my webserver via
/dev/ndb. My firewall is a p150w32 MB RAM which also is the apache front end
of the website. My wife's (and my current workstation until I get my
broadband back) is an AMD K2-333 w/96 MB RAM running Win98SE. I have a p200
but my RAM is bad so its not in use. I would use that as my console
workstation for programming and such.
I may be getting a used laptop as payment for some computer repair work I am
doing and that'll be used as my mobile analysis platform (ethereal, John the
Ripper, etc etc)
So now you know I have a butt load of hardware, but I love to tweak and move
procs to ancillory devices when I can...If someone else needs the 486s more
than I, then please give it to them, but if not.....
I GOT FIRST DIBS =)
Scot Mc Pherson
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