[H-GEN] DX 386

[Sandra Milne]

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At 18:46 17/03/2002 +1000, Robert Stanford wrote:
>  Without a software based modem I'd assume a 386
>would handle the same load no problems.

I tried to get a 486 dx33 to do it. packets were being dropped all over the 
place until the entire box fell over in a screaming heap. shoved in a 586 
cpu and it now serves as our gateway. in fact, it's been our gateway ever 
since we got cable. it stays up on average a month before the next power 
outage resets our uptime. hasn't had a kernel update in a while, but that 
would be the 0 available disk space. (somehow we used up an entire 480meg 
partition on the hard drive and we can't locate where the kruft has 
accumulated) it's occasionally stubborn, and we've had some weirdness with 
it (it suddenly decided that eth0 was going to be eth1 and vice versa and 
would not be told otherwise) but all in all we love our little ezri[1] :-)

Sandra.

[1] Yes I am star trek mad. for those who want to know, my main machine is 
jeri (as in jeri ryan)


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