....is the main "Workstation" and is an old Compaq 200MHz Pentium
1/MMX.
It has 2 Hard Drives, the main one is 2GB and the secondary one is 500MB. The
main drive is partitioned as .....(to follow) and the small drive is mounted
as /home.
A recent addition has been an ATI Xpert98 8MB video card, allowing 1152x864 @ 24bit. Unfortunately this is the limit of resolution I can get with my Compaq V55 monitor
Lurcher has a CDROM drive, a Tape drive for backups, an old Soundblaster 16 and a 3Com 3c509B ethernet NIC
It has 96MB RAM, and probably won’t get any more.
The main use is as a general purpose computer, email, web browsing, news etc.
I do Seti@Home
and this link will show you my current Statistics. Lurcher takes around 40
hours per Work Unit.
This box is also as the access point to the other Linux machines of the
internal LAN.
All the Linux boxes on the LAN use OpenSSH (although they do have
telnet servers as well) and are all configured from SSH
sessions on Lurcher.
They all run Webmin but
mostly I do everything longhand (using vi).
Lurcher also runs N-Top in
Webserver mode. Currently it’s running version 2.0.1
Lurcher has an FTP server running to allow easy access to the
cdrom from the other boxes when updating software etc.
Greyhound, the gateway box, has a cacheing DNS server (Bind 8) which forward requests to Demon's webserver if necessary. This allows local machines to easily access network services from the Linux boxes without having individual "host" files.
The LAN uses an HP500 attached to Lurcher as its network printer - via
"lpd".
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