No you see the learning process for this setup is long over just for clarity sake i will list out the hardware i presently use and with what it does
PCU P3 866 (OC 910)
motherboard asus cusl2 (815) 6 PCI slots
SDRAM 512 133Mhz
Apaptec 39160 Dual SCSI 160 adaptor with 15000 rpm SEAGATE ST336752LC and 10000 rpm SEAGATE ST318404LW
Adaptec SCSI 320 LVD cable X 2
IDE ST320414A and cdrom
graphics Asus 32M Riva TNT 2
Gigabit lan Broadcom 1
10/100Mbps Lan cards 2
SBLive value sound
NEC USB 2 Adaptor
OS Gentoo
400W Server SMPS (Topower)
This old box of mine is running a firewall based on iptables / guarddog along with an ip router and filter, it also acts as a hub The other two desktop i have are connected to this machine.
Now the drawback i feel is as under
Firstly lack of processing power as you all are aware gentoo is a source based distro so when it compiles the packages cpu utilisation peakes at 100% causing long waits for new software to compile Secondly as the asus mobo does not have PCI 64/66Mhz slots i am not able to get the full throughput from the SCSI adaptor that is a 64/32 bit card presently seated in a 32/33Mhz slot. Also the gigabit lan card can saturate the PCI bus. So the point is If i am to sell this p3 system (without the scsi and lan etc etc ) as a simple machine using this money along with some additional i will be able to go up the ladder as far as the hardware is concern.
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