I am looking for a use for an old computer I have. It is a 800 mhz duron with 384mb of ram. I already have a freebsd file server. I was thinking about maybe creating a dhcp server and a secondary file server on linux. Domains are out of the question because my parents use a computer with windows media center. Does anybody have any other ideas as to what I should do with it?
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unhappy_mage
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Slowing it down in what sense? I run my internet here at college (10 mbit both ways 
) through a machine with 2 ethernet adapters, and a roll-your-own-config with shorewall. Plenty of speed, and I use a lot of bandwidth a lot of the time. Ping times change by about 1ms at most, still plenty fast to play games with.
) through a machine with 2 ethernet adapters, and a roll-your-own-config with shorewall. Plenty of speed, and I use a lot of bandwidth a lot of the time. Ping times change by about 1ms at most, still plenty fast to play games with.
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Then you probably have a poorly supported or low quality ethernet adapter in your box.
My gateway router machine, a k62@550 runs my 8m/1m connection without hiccupping. Even when torrents are running full blast, this box will do 1500+ packets/second and I do not see any degredation in performance.
My ethernet hardware are some old Netgear FA311 cards (National Semiconducter drivers).
Another box uses an onboard realtek nic and that sucker works, but the overhead due to drivers is noticeable.
My gateway router machine, a k62@550 runs my 8m/1m connection without hiccupping. Even when torrents are running full blast, this box will do 1500+ packets/second and I do not see any degredation in performance.
My ethernet hardware are some old Netgear FA311 cards (National Semiconducter drivers).
Another box uses an onboard realtek nic and that sucker works, but the overhead due to drivers is noticeable.