PowerMac 5400 as server/gateway?

[Åke Svensson]

Checked in the old "Guru" from Newer Tech and it states that the 5400/120
has PCI, but is there an available slot? If there is,  you could by a second
NIC. Search this list for suitable one, although I can recommend a RTL8139
NIC for a recent kernel.

Regards,

Ake Svensson

> Från: "Timothy A. Seufert" <tas@mindspring.com>
> Svara till: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Datum: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 20:28:37 -0700
> Till: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Ämne: Re: PowerMac 5400 as server/gateway?
> 
> At 7:05 PM -0700 6/4/02, Jay Savage wrote:
> 
>> My question is: how suitable would this machine be as a gateway and
>> experimetal web/mailserver?  It only has 10BaseT (and maybe AAUI as
>> well?),
> 
> I'm pretty sure that machine has only one Ethernet MAC (medium access
> controller), so even if you have both ports, you can only use one at
> a time.
> 
> That could present a problem if you want to use it as a gateway: the
> best gateway setups use one network interface for the outside world
> and another for the internal network.  I'm not sure, but I don't
> think that the 5400 has any slots available for adding a second NIC.
> 
>> but since my DSL is only 768k downstream and 128k upstream, it
>> doesn't seem like bandwidth is an issue, and the rest of my network behi=
nd
>> it will still run through the 10/100 hub (or 10/65, as the case may be--
>> it's linksys ;-} )  And while the machine isn't fast, especially with th=
at
>> 603e chip, if I max out the ram and drop in the L1 cache, it's shouldn't
>> be *too* bad.
> 
> I use a PowerBook 2400 as a gateway/firewall with 1.5 Mbps downstream
> cable.  It has a 180 MHz 603e, 256KB (I think) L2 cache, and 80 MB of
> RAM.  Performance is fine.  In fact, processor load during peak
> traffic is almost nil.  The Linux kernel's network stack is pretty
> efficient.
> 
>> i'm also interested in experimenting with it as a webser and possibly ma=
il
>> server, and--since my server experience is basically limited to OS9
>> websharing and a small ftp server based no directions from this list--I'=
m
>> not sure how much processor time and RAM those operations use.
> 
> Depends on how many hits the server is expected to process.  For
> light duty use, a machine in the 5400's class should be OK.
> -- 
> Tim Seufert
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