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LANd ho!!!

Remember the panicky kernel? Kernel panics. I junk it.

Besides, the modem itself behaves just nicely as a firewall/router…

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4 Responses to “LANd ho!!!”

  1. sat Says:
    August 29th, 2005 at 9:41 pm

    I thot only cable modems do that. Not ordinary dialups.

  2. Nirenjan Says:
    August 29th, 2005 at 10:57 pm

    @Sat: It’s not a dialup modem, it’s a DSL one…

    Did I forget to mention that I got broadband back in January???

  3. Murali Says:
    August 30th, 2005 at 9:45 pm

    Hi Nirenjan,

    Mind telling in a sentence or two what all this kernel panicking is all about :)

  4. Nirenjan Says:
    August 30th, 2005 at 10:29 pm

    @Optimist: Nothing really, I have an old Pentium II 233 MHz PC with 128 MB RAM & 10 GB hard disk. I wanted to try to convert that into a router/firewall to isolate my remaining PCs from the net. It turned out that one of the RAM chips on that PC had gone bad and was causing a kernel crash everytime I tried to install one of the special distros.

    In the end, I would up using the DSL modem itself as the router/firewall. That P-II machine is now useful only for those ancient games that the modern PC’s won’t run - namely, Duke Nukem, Doom, Descent, Wolfenstein, (all games written before 1997)…