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BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 No. And yes Lets start at the beginning 'swap' (more correctly, 'paging') is a method of managing real memory that permits the OS toappearto have...
RADIUS is (I think) Remote Access (or Authentication) Dial-In User Services. It's username and pbuttword, designed originally for dial-in servers. With pre-shared key (PSK, also known as personal), everyone who access...
On 30 Jul 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article
Where I work, the departments are charged for new hardware, and the old stuff gets recycled. So when the boss decides that the secretary needs a new Quad Xeon to read mail and type reports, we get the cast off box. Out comes the old IDE drive, in goes SCSI, out comes the SuperSpiffy video card with 128 Megs of VRAM, in goes the ancient SVGA card, and the RAM gets topped up. Presto - a new server for next to nothing. The old server may be re-tasked to something less demanding, or it is gently placed in the dumpster (where it won't stay more than a few minutes).
About a year ago, someone finally noticed that the facility's mail servers were old Pentium 66s. Seems they were not on the list of servers that would ordinarily be receiving modern replacements automatically, and they were just forgotten. As for using old stuff as a router, my home firewall don't serve anything from home, it's main job is sending RST packets to the skript kiddiez who scan to see if there's anything interesting there. In the same way, the box that's doing double duty as a print server and backups server does not need lightning fast response, and is consequently an old 486 with but 64 Megs of RAM. The primary file server is faster, but the network link speed is 100 Megabit, and even the 486 can keep that pipe full without raising a sweat.
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