I use Linux at home and as such seem to spend more time configuring
and playing than doing anything "useful".

I have currently got 3 Linux boxes on an ethernet LAN and they are


Lurcher: a 200MHz Pentium I with 96MB RAM running Red Hat 7.2 with
a custom 2.4.17 kernel.

This is the "workstation" running X (currently using Window Maker
as Window Manager)

This box  has a Colorado tape drive capable of 170MB (350MB
compressed) archives on DC2120XL Tapes. This drive is used to take
backups of all machines on the LAN.

Deerhound:  a 486dx2/50 with 28MB RAM and Red Hat 6.2 and custom
2.2.19 kernel which acts as a Mail and News Server.

Greyhound: a 486dx2/66 with 24MB RAM and also Red Hat 6.2, and yet
another custom 2.2.19 kernel.

This is the Masqerading Gateway and IPchains firewall.  This box
provides the ppp connection to the Internet - using Linux ppp's
"demand" option.

The 2 "server" boxes also have serial login facilities and it is
possible to use a Palm Pilot or a serial terminal to login, from
where it is possible to telnet/SSH to any other box on the LAN.

Deerhound has a ppp serial login available which currently is used
to provide network access for an old 486 laptop, using a null modem
cable. This runs Caldera Dr-DOS with various WATTCP applications
and NCSA PC-TELNET.


Greyhound has a Wyse terminal connected to /dev/ttyS1 (and a
Diamond SupraExpress 56epro on /dev/ttyS0)

Software I use Pine 4.40 for mail, SLRN 0.9.7.3 for news, Netscape
and Lynx for WWW, N-Top for network monitoring as well as Ethereal
and Etherape. Webmin occasionally for remote administration of the
server machines.

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