[plug] Mandrake 9.1

[Bernd Felsche]

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 12:39:40PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> >>Does mandrake still dislike 486's?  
> >
> >Yes, but doesnt everyone? Are there actually any 486s left running? ;) 

> >You would want to put a gateway setup on anything less than a P200 anyway -
> >there's an article in a recent Linux Format (IIRC) which explains why.

> Mine at home is a P166 (with 128mb of RAM!!) and it struggles pretty 
> badly. Of course, its running Xvnc for 'doze users to monitor its 

That's the problem then... 

> traffic levels, link status, etc, plus it has complex iptables rules and 
> is using HTB QoS... and to top it all off, its running bind9 for our 
> LAN's DNS and runs samba. Most of the CPU time seems to be munched by 
> PPPoEd, PPPd and the kernel (firewalling, QoS, etc) though.

You're srunning samba on your gateway?

I've set up a couple of sites with Squid/Guard as proxy server on
the gateway/firewall. Mail gets forwarded from there as well.

> So I think a P100 should be quite fine for a basic iptables 
> firewall/gateway.

Indeed. The 486/66 with 8MB of RAM I've been using for 4 years as
firewall on a modem line is still fine 99.5% of the time. Most of
the problems it has are down to a lack of RAM. Previous uptime was
180 days. Then the thunderstorms came around and with all the UPS
cycling, the AT PSU wedged - preventing the system from booting
properly.

  <4>Linux version 2.2.19 (root at I386.suse.de) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE))
  <4>BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
  <4> BIOS-88: 000a0000 @ 00000000 (usable)
  <4> BIOS-88: 00740000 @ 00100000 (usable)
  <4>Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
  <4>Calibrating delay loop... 33.28 BogoMIPS
  <4>Memory: 5988k/8448k available (1508k kernel code, 408k reserved, 456k data, 8
  <4>Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
  <4>Dentry hash table entries: 2048 (order 2, 16k)
  <4>Buffer cache hash table entries: 8192 (order 3, 32k)
  <4>Page cache hash table entries: 2048 (order 1, 8k)
  <4>Inode hash table entries: 2048 (16k), inode-max: 1056
  <5>VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
  <4>CPU: Intel 486 DX/2 stepping 05
  <6>Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
  <6>Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
  <6>Checking for popad bug... OK.
  <4>POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
  <4>PCI: No PCI bus detected
  <6>Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
  <6>Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
  ...

There's a huge blacklist loaded by the smtpd every few seconds with
about 1000 spam attacks repelled per day.

No GUI of any sort loaded.

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