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tyggerjaiSo the problems that used to plague lioness (the OpenBSD gateway at home) have either been fixed in OpenBSD 3.1, or don't occur with the network card combination I'm now testing on lynx.
Yes, it's wrong to call a gateway box lynx. Deal :)
lioness used to slow to a crawl with nice new PCI network cards, but work fine with shonky old ISA ones.
Either the motherboard not liking the PCI, or, I believe, an OpenBSD/realtek combination bug.
Anyway.
Lynx is up and running. Yay.
So next is the new fatcat (freebsd 4.6-RELEASE -> freebsd 4.7-STABLE, probably, but the important bit is a new harddrive - fatcat is getting the 8 gig SCSI so I can rescue the 20 gig for...), the new kittling (Debian), and then finally the new lioness (OpenBSD 2.6->3.1).
So a very geeky weekend of upgrading pretty much every box (panther is giving up the 8 gig SCSI and getting an 8 gig IDE instead, which will boot *nixes, and have some windows data - then I can probably blow away the old NT partition I never use and reclaim some space), and I think I'll do sphinx as well - blow away redhat and put debian on.
Wow.
I'm a geek.
In other news, maybe I *won't* move to NZ.
Life is, after all, pretty bloody fine.
This is helped by having the best rabbit int he world, of course. Or at least, the most tolerant :)
sol.
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Yes, it's wrong to call a gateway box lynx. Deal :)
lioness used to slow to a crawl with nice new PCI network cards, but work fine with shonky old ISA ones.
Either the motherboard not liking the PCI, or, I believe, an OpenBSD/realtek combination bug.
Anyway.
Lynx is up and running. Yay.
So next is the new fatcat (freebsd 4.6-RELEASE -> freebsd 4.7-STABLE, probably, but the important bit is a new harddrive - fatcat is getting the 8 gig SCSI so I can rescue the 20 gig for...), the new kittling (Debian), and then finally the new lioness (OpenBSD 2.6->3.1).
So a very geeky weekend of upgrading pretty much every box (panther is giving up the 8 gig SCSI and getting an 8 gig IDE instead, which will boot *nixes, and have some windows data - then I can probably blow away the old NT partition I never use and reclaim some space), and I think I'll do sphinx as well - blow away redhat and put debian on.
Wow.
I'm a geek.
In other news, maybe I *won't* move to NZ.
Life is, after all, pretty bloody fine.
This is helped by having the best rabbit int he world, of course. Or at least, the most tolerant :)
sol.
.