[olug] About Damn Time

[Jason Ferguson]

Eric,

My only suggestion on the hard drive... see if your BIOS supports drives
over 32GB.

Jason

On 15 Apr 2001 07:13:04 -0700, Eric Penne wrote:
> AFter about 2 weeks dicking around with RoadRunner and firewall/router
> issues I finally got a firewall to work.
> 
> Some floppy based firewalls don't support anything without a math
> coprocessor (ie screw the x86SX anything.
> 
> I used 4 different network cards and none of them would get a dhcp
> lease from RoadRunner until I used the original eepro100 that I had in
> my windows machine when the RR guy came to install.  That meant I had
> to use an old P75 I had laying around.  I so wanted to use this 486-33
> SX I had from gateway but alas no PCI and no coprocessor.
> 
> Of course then all sorts of weird things are happening with speed
> issues.  Most conect time issues.  I trace that to the RR name server
> and when I switch name servers it is all good.  I spent about an hour
> trying to get the IPs from the RR DNS and put the ones I use the most
> in my /etc/hosts file.
> 
> I also fubared my windows side.  I can't get it to boot from the 45GB
> hard drive but I can get it to boot from the 20GB hard drive.  I
> switched them out exactly on the same ide port from the ata100 card. 
> Any ideas on how to get win to boot?  
> 
> Maybe if I get win to boot I can go through the RR install and again
> with an ISA net card and then I can save my eepro100 for my faster
> internal network.
> 
> Nevertheless I got good speeds going through my p75 firewall/router
> with an eepro100 external interface and Maxtech ne2000 ISA internal
> interface. I used normr's floppy based router/firewall and it was very
> easy to setup.
> 
> Eric Penne
> 
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