What can I do with a spare box?

downinthemine · 12-05-2003, 01:52 PM

My parents have a PII sitting in their closet at home. It's mine for the taking if I can figure out what to do with it. I have Mandrake 9.1 (though soon to be Slackware 9.1) on my notebook and my fiance has XP on hers. We have DSL service and use a Netgear router with a hardware firewall. I'd like to bring it down and have it play some role on our network. I don't really have any problems with our current setup, but I think it would be fun to tool around with the PII. What can I do with it?

david_ross · 12-05-2003, 02:23 PM

File server
Web server
Auth server
Mail server
Firewall

dubman · 12-05-2003, 04:12 PM

trash the netgear and get your self a real firewall/router

http://eressea.pikus.net/~pikus/plug...all/page0.html

ugob · 12-05-2003, 04:47 PM

Try out Clarkconnect. Very nice. www.clarkconnect.org

downinthemine · 12-05-2003, 05:04 PM

So I would run a cable from my DSL modem into the PII and then get a second NIC and run it to the router?

ugob · 12-05-2003, 05:07 PM

hmm, depends on what you want to do. you can replace the router with your linux box.

JordanH · 12-06-2003, 10:46 AM

Pack it up, ship it to me and I'll turn it into something useful.

Seriously though... What you do with it depends on your needs. Are you a college student? Turn it into some forum that's popular... sell add banners... become rich. Are you a techy-geek type? Build a development server... start your own linux project.... sell out to Microsoft... become rich. Are you a paranoid guy with a foil had? Turn it into an overly protective firewall... deny all incoming and out going connections... keep paying for your Internet access that you don't use... become poor. Are you a file/mp3 junky? Turn it into a peer-to-peer file sharing server... ftp server... distribute warez.... go to jail. Are you a porn star? Turn it into a web server... film movies... sell movies... become rich and popular.