9/15 I've come into possession of about 25 old sparc 5 and 20s
and i'd like to experiment with them (set up NFS home server, DNS
RAID, print server, NIS master/slaves, multiple app servers, etc.)
I'd like to set up my own little network, connected to my office
network so I can download software and get outside, but not
interfering with it. Do I need a router or other network
equipment? Any good quick jumpstart tutorial you can recommend?
\_ download and install ipf on one of the boxes. And get
another sbus nic for it. You'll be set to use that as
your nat/pat gateway. You should be able to score a le0
(10BT) nic pretty cheap. If you want to try Solaris, try
2.6 on the 5's. 7 and 8 were pretty slow on the 5's, but
they should be fine on a 20. You should also consider
OpenBSD on you SS 5 & 20's. Its a solid OS that will
really make your systems shine.
\_ http://docs.sun.com , see the Advanced Installation Guide
in the Solaris installation docs collection. You can put
your network of old sparcs on a private network (10.0.0.0 for
example) behind a box that is running NAT software. This
way the machines on the network will still be able to see
the rest of the internet but not vice-versa.
\_ Make sure that all the netmasks are the same, and that all
the network card speeds are the same, if they don't all have
le cards (10Mbit.) -John
\_ And duplex. |