gdorf
01-05-2003, 06:35 AM
I wanna build a computer with (really) cheap parts I have laying around my room.
This computer will have:
166mhz p2 proccessor
64mb Ram
4mb Video card
3 gig Hard drive
Floppy (temporary external Cdrom for installing OS, etc)
Cheap Monitor
Anyway, we have only 4 ports going out from our linksys router, and all four of these are taken. I was wondering if I could set it up so that my cheap computer is always on, and the connection goes through it my main computer. This way, I could still use my main computer for playing Online games, Surfing the net, etc. But I could also use this cheaper computer as a webserver/ftp server.
(router) <----------> (cheap server) <------------> (my computer)
My main questions with this are:
1: Is it possible?
2: What would I need as far as ethernet cards on the cheap computer. Should I get an ethernet card with both an input and an output, or can I just get two ethernet cards, and use one as an input and one as an output.
3: Is my cheap computer fast enough, or will it significantly lag the connection on my main computer.
I plan on installing Slackware to route the connection if I find this is a feasable idea. Mainly because I know slackware well. I probably won't install any Window Managers, or at least keep them to a minimum (def. not KDE), as I don't think the computer will run them well.
Any help you can give is *greatly* appreciated. I'm leaving for Frys sometime tommorrow, and would really rather get help from the people here rather than some rude employee who doesn't know what he's talking about. ;)
This computer will have:
166mhz p2 proccessor
64mb Ram
4mb Video card
3 gig Hard drive
Floppy (temporary external Cdrom for installing OS, etc)
Cheap Monitor
Anyway, we have only 4 ports going out from our linksys router, and all four of these are taken. I was wondering if I could set it up so that my cheap computer is always on, and the connection goes through it my main computer. This way, I could still use my main computer for playing Online games, Surfing the net, etc. But I could also use this cheaper computer as a webserver/ftp server.
(router) <----------> (cheap server) <------------> (my computer)
My main questions with this are:
1: Is it possible?
2: What would I need as far as ethernet cards on the cheap computer. Should I get an ethernet card with both an input and an output, or can I just get two ethernet cards, and use one as an input and one as an output.
3: Is my cheap computer fast enough, or will it significantly lag the connection on my main computer.
I plan on installing Slackware to route the connection if I find this is a feasable idea. Mainly because I know slackware well. I probably won't install any Window Managers, or at least keep them to a minimum (def. not KDE), as I don't think the computer will run them well.
Any help you can give is *greatly* appreciated. I'm leaving for Frys sometime tommorrow, and would really rather get help from the people here rather than some rude employee who doesn't know what he's talking about. ;)