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"Vista-Ray" <vista-ray@SPAMLESSclara.co.uk> writes:

>I've got an option on a couple of these boxes, and wonder if they of any
>use, or are they too slow. Are they any better (faster) than IPC/IPX's? I
>reckon they should be.

>I was thinking of using them as NS1 and NS2 for my small 8 node home
>network, mail maybe and in my teach yourself NIS+ experiment at home, and
>maybe a gateway. All headless, of course.

I have two running here on my network. One runs my ISDN link (it's actually
an LX, it and the classic both have the same CPU), and the other is my FTP
server. Both perform admirably and there's never any significant load on
either machine.

I could have used IPX's for both tasks but I didn't have two IPX bases
available at the time. 

I've got Solaris 2.6 running on the gateway box and NetBSD on the FTP server
machine.

>Also do Classics have an RJ45 connector? The Classic-X I've seen did, but it
>looked like a bit of an add-on, with the blocked off ports and all.

Yes, Classics and LX's (their higher spec'd cousin) both have RJ-45's for
ethernet. The ports blocked off on the Classic;s are actually the ISDN
connectors, but only LX's have ISDN hardware on board, so Classic's use the
same case but just cover those sockets since they don't do anything on those
machines.

Regards,

Craig.

PS. I cannot get the SunISDN software to work on my LX. It's properly
configured, but it will not make calls on the ISDN line.. So I've dumped the
software and gone back to using an ISDN modem on the serial port so I can
use the same PPP software as before...


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