[svlug] Want a dial up server!

[Rick Moen]

begin Jacob Hunter quotation:

> I have an old Pentium 60 with 20 megs of RAM, and a 540MB HD.  I want
> to make it into a dial up server.  It is an old HP Vectra XP/60 with
> integrated VGA (which I don't care about because of the fact that I
> will not be running garphics on it) and NIC.  It has no CD-ROM.  I
> want to be able to run a firewall and the ability for it to be
> connected to the Internet via a 56k modem and share it over my home
> ethernet.  Also I want to run an SMTP server on it.  Do you guys think
> this is feasible?

Of course.

Think about how you plan on loading a distribution, though.  It's
certainly eminently practical to do on a machine such as you describe,
but you'll need either (1) a distribution you load from floppies, (2) 
a borrowed CD-ROM drive, (3) temporary access to a fast Internet
connection, or (4) somebody offering access to installation files from a
local machine.

It's always a good idea to have a LAN and at least one server at
InstallFests.  SVLUG's haven't reliably had either one.  Computer
Literacy makes available limited and somewhat slow Internet access (TCP
port 80 = HTTP only), but SVLUG seldom bothers to take advantage of
that.

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