Wanna talk about computers??

Well, okay... This machine is my freesco router, firewall, print-, dns-, dhcp-, http-, ftp-, mail-, and telnet/ssh-server

It all started with an old 486 and an article in PC-Active, a Dutch comp magazine.
At that time I was running Win NT 4 on a p233 and wingate to provide my girlfriends machine with Internet. I found that I was more checking out the attacks than doing something useful.

The article in PC-Active was about a simple solution for Internet sharing and firewalling.

The old 486 was the last of a couple (about 4) and 2 NIC where left from the others. I made the floppy and started to configure. Damned.. it toke me 2 days...

Not because of Freesco, that took 10 minutes, no, on figuring out how to get my NIC's to work properly (WHERE THE HELL ARE THESE OLD FLOPPIES???) and to get my IP address released.

Now, after 1 1/2 year, I migrated to a iPP200 / 32 Mb with a 850 Mb harddisk and a 10 and 100 Mbit NIC After a year I changed the harddisk for a 4.3 Gb.

In feb. 2003 I changed to a p233 with 96Mb (yes, the old NT machine) because the IDE controller broke down on the p200. I also added an extra 10Gb disk for use as a file server.

May 2005: I've got a new server!! Marktplaats.nl provided me with a p3-550/192mb/10Gb and that makes my CGI's run faster :)

So... I'm running a nice and easy to control machine without keyboard, mouse or monitor, by using Samba, secure webbrowser, ssh and ftp, I got my own domain, and run my homepage really from home.