Last night, a visitor was using my daughters box and she was using mine. The web site she was on wanted Adobe Flash or a newer version of Adobe Flash. At that moment, I forgot that I have the Adobe Yum Repository installed. I downloaded the .rpm file from Adobe and when I tried to install it, got a message that a later version is already installed. First thought was the other thread, about Firefox and Adobe for .pdf files. Is this a glitch in the latest version of Firefox we are now using? My box is fully updated. In Add Ons, for Plug Ins, I see Shockwave Flash v. 9.0 r124 and the rest is Mplayer stuff. TIA
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 09:24 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
Last night, a visitor was using my daughters box and she was using mine. The web site she was on wanted Adobe Flash or a newer version of Adobe Flash. At that moment, I forgot that I have the Adobe Yum Repository installed. I downloaded the .rpm file from Adobe and when I tried to install it, got a message that a later version is already installed. First thought was the other thread, about Firefox and Adobe for .pdf files. Is this a glitch in the latest version of Firefox we are now using? My box is fully updated. In Add Ons, for Plug Ins, I see Shockwave Flash v. 9.0 r124 and the rest is Mplayer stuff. TIA
On my 5.2 CentOS, pluginreg.dat has this.
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12
And
$ rpm -qa | grep flash flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release
<snip sig stuff>
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:46 AM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote: <snip>
are now using? My box is fully updated. In Add Ons, for Plug Ins, I see Shockwave Flash v. 9.0 r124 and the rest is Mplayer stuff. TIA
On my 5.2 CentOS, pluginreg.dat has this.
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12
Bill: Mine has this:
[PLUGINS] /home/lanny/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so:$ :$ 1182292260000:1:13:$ Shockwave Flash 9.0 r48:$ Shockwave Flash:$ 2 0:application/x-shockwave-flash:Shockwave Flash:swf:$ 1:application/futuresplash:FutureSplash Player:spl:$ /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so:$
$ rpm -qa | grep flash flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release
Here's mine:
[lanny@dell2400 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep flash flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-2.el5.rf
You have been looking into the Adobe .pdf issue with Firefox during the past few days. Do you think this problem with Flash might be related to that? Or, do I have something screwed up on my box? TIA, Lanny
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 11:10 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:46 AM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
<snip> >> are now using? My box is fully updated. In Add Ons, for Plug Ins, I >> see Shockwave Flash v. 9.0 r124 and the rest is Mplayer stuff. TIA > > On my 5.2 CentOS, pluginreg.dat has this. > > Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12
Bill: Mine has this:
[PLUGINS] /home/lanny/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so:$ :$ 1182292260000:1:13:$ Shockwave Flash 9.0 r48:$ Shockwave Flash:$ 2 0:application/x-shockwave-flash:Shockwave Flash:swf:$ 1:application/futuresplash:FutureSplash Player:spl:$ /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so:$
I think you should dump that old version (if you're CentOS 5.x?) and get it updated to the 10.2 Why your plkuginreg.dat has 9 while your rpm shows 10.x, I couldn't guess.
However, mine is wrapped.
1228591673000:1:1:$ Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12:$ Shockwave Flash:$ 2 0:application/x-shockwave-flash:Shockwave Flash:swf:$ 1:application/futuresplash:FutureSplash Player:spl:$ /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_32_32.nppdf.so:$
$ rpm -qa | grep flash flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release
Here's mine:
[lanny@dell2400 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep flash flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-2.el5.rf
Your's is from rpmforge now. I don't have experience with it, so I can't offer if that's the problem. Mine came from the adobe site, installed flawlessly and worked OOTB (Out Of The Box).
With both having the same rel/ver, I'm not sure what's different about the rpmforge version.
You have been looking into the Adobe .pdf issue with Firefox during the past few days. Do you think this problem with Flash might be related to that? Or, do I have something screwed up on my box? TIA, Lanny
Well, ATM, all I know is that the pluginreg.dat has a version that doesn't match what rpm shows. I would get those consistent first. If it were me (being comfortable with "risky behavior"), I'd uninstall the rpm, make sure plugins don't include it anymore (if not, we'll have to think since it says "don't edit") and re-install. Rpmforge is probably OK, but the adobe site would also be OK AFAICT from my experience.
<snip sig stuff>
HTH
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:58 AM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote: <snip>
I think you should dump that old version (if you're CentOS 5.x?) and get it updated to the 10.2 Why your plkuginreg.dat has 9 while your rpm shows 10.x, I couldn't guess.
However, mine is wrapped.
1228591673000:1:1:$ Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12:$ Shockwave Flash:$ 2 0:application/x-shockwave-flash:Shockwave Flash:swf:$ 1:application/futuresplash:FutureSplash Player:spl:$ /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_32_32.nppdf.so:$
$ rpm -qa | grep flash flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release
Here's mine:
[lanny@dell2400 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep flash flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-2.el5.rf
Your's is from rpmforge now. I don't have experience with it, so I can't offer if that's the problem. Mine came from the adobe site, installed flawlessly and worked OOTB (Out Of The Box).
With both having the same rel/ver, I'm not sure what's different about the rpmforge version.
You have been looking into the Adobe .pdf issue with Firefox during the past few days. Do you think this problem with Flash might be related to that? Or, do I have something screwed up on my box? TIA, Lanny
Well, ATM, all I know is that the pluginreg.dat has a version that doesn't match what rpm shows. I would get those consistent first. If it were me (being comfortable with "risky behavior"), I'd uninstall the rpm, make sure plugins don't include it anymore (if not, we'll have to think since it says "don't edit") and re-install. Rpmforge is probably OK, but the adobe site would also be OK AFAICT from my experience.
Thank you for all of your ideas and suggestions. I will try to resolve this, hopefully tomorrow and I will let you know, if I got it to work properly or not. Yes, it's a CentOS 5.2 (32 bit) box.
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:46 AM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
<snip> > $ rpm -qa | grep flash > flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release
Here's mine:
[lanny@dell2400 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep flash flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-2.el5.rf
You have been looking into the Adobe .pdf issue with Firefox during the past few days. Do you think this problem with Flash might be related to that? Or, do I have something screwed up on my box? TIA, Lanny
Try running:
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup
and then stop and start firefox. That should fix your problem.
Kind regards,
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Dag Wieers dag@centos.org wrote:
Try running:
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/setupand then stop and start firefox. That should fix your problem.
Kind regards,
Dag: Thank you. I will try that right now and get back to you. If that doesn't work, I will try what Bill suggested, ASAP. Lanny
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Dag Wieers dag@centos.org wrote: <snip>
Try running:
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/setupand then stop and start firefox. That should fix your problem.
It did! Jackpot! Thank you! I tested it at this URL: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/ and the Adobe Flash Player works OK now. :-)
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Dag Wieers dag@centos.org wrote: <snip>
Try running: /usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup and then stop and start firefox. That should fix your problem.
It did on my daughter's box too. Mine died today. The reason I was having the mouse freeze, and other symptoms, on my Dell Dimension 2400 box, is that the motherboard is damaged. I ran the Dell Diagnostics on it, Sunday, and it was supposedly OK. Dell wants about US$237 for a new motherboard, delivered to our house. I think I will wait, until I can buy a very low end box, without a monitor, and everything will have a guarantee. I am going to fix up our backup IPCop Router/Firewall box and use that one, in the meantime. Slow, but it should work....
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
It did on my daughter's box too. Mine died today. The reason I was having the mouse freeze, and other symptoms, on my Dell Dimension 2400 box, is that the motherboard is damaged. I ran the Dell Diagnostics on it, Sunday, and it was supposedly OK. Dell wants about US$237 for a new motherboard, delivered to our house. I think I will wait, until I can buy a very low end box, without a monitor, and everything will have a guarantee. I am going to fix up our backup IPCop Router/Firewall box and use that one, in the meantime. Slow, but it should work....
TigerDirect.com has a $99 box available, and it's pretty low end, but it might suit your purposes.
Good luck.
mhr
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:21 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
TigerDirect.com has a $99 box available, and it's >pretty >low end, but > it might suit your purposes. Good luck.
Mark: Hmmmm. If I was in the USA, I'd go for that, in a minute. But, we are down here in South America (much closer to Miami, FL than you are!) , so there is a problem with transportation and customs. However, I wonder how much it weighs and if it is *very* light, maybe I could have it shipped down here. I will look at TigerDirect.com and check it out. Thanks for the idea! I'm planning to remove the HD, DVD-ROM, CD-RW drive from my box, probably tomorrow, and transplant them into the old box. The only thing about the Dell boxes is that they use some proprietary parts. For example, the power supply connectors are non standard. Dell is great for support, but bad in a situation like this, where you need the proprietary part and it costs an arm and a leg. Generic is better for cheap replacement parts! Now, I have another idea, along the same line as the Tiger Direct box. There is something called mercadolibre.com.co in Colombia, a poor imitation of ebay and maybe I can find a box like TigerDirect has, there, or in an ad in a Bogota newspaper. Great idea! Thanks! Lanny
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:21 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote: <snip>
TigerDirect.com has a $99 box available, and it's pretty low end, but it might suit your purposes.
As I wrote a couple of nights ago, if I was in the USA, I would order one of those, without giving it a second thought. Wonderful! Next Monday morning, I am going to go to a shopping center in Cali, where there are *lots* of stores that sell computer stuff and see if I can come up with something like that.
We have four (4) Dell Dimension boxes and their support here is *SUPER*, but they use proprietary cases, motherboards and power supplies. Their quote of USD$237 for a new motherboard is probably not something I am going to follow up on. The box is running most of the time, which is puzzling, because it is an intermittent problem.
My wife just made me an offer I may refuse: She told me to go to the Dell web site for Colombia and look for a new, inexpensive box there. They have one with Ubuntu Linux on it, for about US$700 with a monitor and 3 year in house warranty. Maybe..... :-)
Lanny Marcus wrote: . . .
We have four (4) Dell Dimension boxes and their support here is *SUPER*, but they use proprietary cases, motherboards and power supplies. Their quote of USD$237 for a new motherboard is probably not something I am going to follow up on. The box is running most of the time, which is puzzling, because it is an intermittent problem.
Just a shot in the dark . . . look at the electrolytic can caps on the mainboard. If any of them are "puffy" - the top is domed, not flat - that could be your problem and an easy fix. I've run into this issue on several different devices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague http://badcaps.net
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Toby Bluhm tkb@alltechmedusa.com wrote:
We have four (4) Dell Dimension boxes and their support here is *SUPER*, but they use proprietary cases, motherboards and power supplies. Their quote of USD$237 for a new motherboard is probably not something I am going to follow up on. The box is running most of the time, which is puzzling, because it is an intermittent problem.
Just a shot in the dark . . . look at the electrolytic can >caps on the mainboard. If any of them are "puffy" - the top is domed, >not flat - that could be your problem and an easy fix. I've run into >this issue on several different devices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague http://badcaps.net
Toby: Interesting you should mention that and thank you for the URLs. This morning, I made my expedition to the shopping center in North Cali, where there are many tiny stores that sell computers and parts. The one I settled on (After going into 8 or 10 stores I knew the 2nd one was the best of them) has a man who fixes mainboards all day. If he can fix the mainboard, the maximum charge is about USD$37. That's USD$200 less than Dell Latin America quoted me for a new mainboard, delivered to our house.... Also, he can check out the power supply for me.
Also got prices on a new tower, mainboard (for Socket 775), Celeron CPU and RAM in the same place; along with the price for a new DVD burner for my daughters box.
I plan to take my box there, on the 5th of January, to get him to look at the mainboard and diagnose it. Thanks! Lanny
on 12-19-2008 3:00 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:21 PM, MHR mhullrich-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
<snip> > TigerDirect.com has a $99 box available, and it's pretty low end, but > it might suit your purposes.
As I wrote a couple of nights ago, if I was in the USA, I would order one of those, without giving it a second thought. Wonderful! Next Monday morning, I am going to go to a shopping center in Cali, where there are *lots* of stores that sell computer stuff and see if I can come up with something like that.
We have four (4) Dell Dimension boxes and their support here is *SUPER*, but they use proprietary cases, motherboards and power supplies. Their quote of USD$237 for a new motherboard is probably not something I am going to follow up on. The box is running most of the time, which is puzzling, because it is an intermittent problem.
My wife just made me an offer I may refuse: She told me to go to the Dell web site for Colombia and look for a new, inexpensive box there. They have one with Ubuntu Linux on it, for about US$700 with a monitor and 3 year in house warranty. Maybe..... :-)
While you are looking on the Dell site, sometimes they have some good deals under the "Reconditioned" systems. Most of them have had nothing more than someone got the system and sent it back within the 30 days because they didn't like it. They are usually at least 20% cheaper.
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Scott Silva ssilva@sgvwater.com wrote: <snip>
My wife just made me an offer I may refuse: She told me to go to the Dell web site for Colombia and look for a new, inexpensive box there. They have one with Ubuntu Linux on it, for about US$700 with a monitor and 3 year in house warranty. Maybe..... :-)
While you are looking on the Dell site, sometimes they have some good deals under the "Reconditioned" systems. Most of them have had nothing more than someone got the system and sent it back within the 30 days because they didn't like it. They are usually at least 20% cheaper.
Scott: Thank you for that idea. I will go to the Dell web site for Colombia again and see if they offer those reconditioned systems down here. The other night, my wife indicated that I should take her up on this, while she is in a good mood. :-) As I just wrote to Toby, this morning, I went to a place where they may be able to fix the mainboard in this box. I plan to take it there, on the 5th of January, to see if it can be fixed. If not, I will probably buy something like Mark (MHR) suggested last week (bare bones box from TigerDirect.com), but get it here, because ordering from the states is a PITA and if I do, there's no warranty down here and I am out of luck, if there's a problem. Due to some problem at OpenDNS.com I haven't been able to get to the Dell Support Forum since this came up last week. Lots to like about Dell stuff, but the fact that they (and other manufacturers) use some proprietary components (tower, power supply and mainboard) is a "minus" if one needs to buy a replacement. Happy Holidays! Lanny
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Dag Wieers dag@centos.org wrote:
<snip> > Try running: > /usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup > and then stop and start firefox. That should fix your problem.
It did on my daughter's box too. Mine died today. The reason I was having the mouse freeze, and other symptoms, on my Dell Dimension 2400 box, is that the motherboard is damaged. I ran the Dell Diagnostics on it, Sunday, and it was supposedly OK. Dell wants about US$237 for a new motherboard, delivered to our house. I think I will wait, until I can buy a very low end box, without a monitor, and everything will have a guarantee. I am going to fix up our backup IPCop Router/Firewall box and use that one, in the meantime. Slow, but it should work....
I hope you don't follow the latest trend and blame RPMforge ;-)
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Dag Wieers dag@centos.org wrote:
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Dag Wieers dag@centos.org wrote:
<snip> > Try running: > /usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup > and then stop and start firefox. That should fix your problem.
It did on my daughter's box too. Mine died today. The reason I was having the mouse freeze, and other symptoms, on my Dell Dimension 2400 box, is that the motherboard is damaged. I ran the Dell Diagnostics on it, Sunday, and it was supposedly OK. Dell wants about US$237 for a new motherboard, delivered to our house. I think I will wait, until I can buy a very low end box, without a monitor, and everything will have a guarantee. I am going to fix up our backup IPCop Router/Firewall box and use that one, in the meantime. Slow, but it should work....
I hope you don't follow the latest trend and blame RPMforge ;-)
No he has to first blame EPEL, then he can move onto RPMforge :)
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote: <snip>
I hope you don't follow the latest trend and blame RPMforge ;-)
No he has to first blame EPEL, then he can move onto RPMforge :)
I've never used EPEL, so it would be correct to blame them for this problem? :-)
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
<snip> >> I hope you don't follow the latest trend and blame RPMforge ;-) > > No he has to first blame EPEL, then he can move onto RPMforge :)
I've never used EPEL, so it would be correct to blame them for this problem? :-)
Yes... its even better if you blame EPEL first, then mea-culpa and blame rpmforge and then mea-culpa and blame adobe, etc etc
Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
<snip> >> I hope you don't follow the latest trend and blame RPMforge ;-) > > No he has to first blame EPEL, then he can move onto RPMforge :)
I've never used EPEL, so it would be correct to blame them for this problem? :-)
Yes... its even better if you blame EPEL first, then mea-culpa and blame rpmforge and then mea-culpa and blame adobe, etc etc
After all it's all Altair's fault and you get to have a long chain of complaining to do.
Ralph
on 12-18-2008 2:20 AM Ralph Angenendt spake the following:
Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smooge-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
<snip> >> I hope you don't follow the latest trend and blame RPMforge ;-) > No he has to first blame EPEL, then he can move onto RPMforge :) I've never used EPEL, so it would be correct to blame them for this problem? :-)
Yes... its even better if you blame EPEL first, then mea-culpa and blame rpmforge and then mea-culpa and blame adobe, etc etc
After all it's all Altair's fault and you get to have a long chain of complaining to do.
Ralph
See what happens when you stop playing with your Wang? ;-P
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 20:10 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
<snip> >> I hope you don't follow the latest trend and blame RPMforge ;-) > > No he has to first blame EPEL, then he can move onto RPMforge :)
I've never used EPEL, so it would be correct to blame them for this problem? :-)
It would be correct to support the corporate ethos: Praise for the guilty and blame for the innocent.
Got to play on the team to get ahead in the corporate world.
:-)
<snip sig stuff>
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Dag Wieers dag@centos.org wrote:
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Dag Wieers dag@centos.org wrote:
<snip> > Try running: > /usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup > and then stop and start firefox. That should fix your problem.
It did on my daughter's box too. Mine died today. The reason I was having the mouse freeze, and other symptoms, on my Dell Dimension 2400 box, is that the motherboard is damaged. I ran the Dell Diagnostics on it, Sunday, and it was supposedly OK. Dell wants about US$237 for a new motherboard, delivered to our house. I think I will wait, until I can buy a very low end box, without a monitor, and everything will have a guarantee. I am going to fix up our backup IPCop Router/Firewall box and use that one, in the meantime. Slow, but it should work....
I hope you don't follow the latest trend and blame RPMforge ;-)
Why not?
mhr <RBFG>
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Dag Wieers dag@centos.org wrote: <snip>
I hope you don't follow the latest trend and blame >RPMforge ;-)
I hadn't thought about blaming someone else for this problem, but, thank you for the idea! :-) Actually, the box has always had a UPS with automatic voltage regulation and it is our newest box, the 2nd one I'd won in a raffle, but, it's almost 4 years old. First time we have had a catastrophic failure of a motherboard in our house.
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 18:03 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Dag Wieers dag@centos.org wrote:
<snip> > Try running: > /usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup > and then stop and start firefox. That should fix your problem.
<snip>
it, Sunday, and it was supposedly OK. Dell wants about US$237 for a new motherboard, delivered to our house. I think I will wait, until I can buy a very low end box, without a monitor, and everything will have a guarantee. I am going to fix up our backup IPCop Router/Firewall box and use that one, in the meantime. Slow, but it should work....
My backup box is an old 200MHz Pentium w/96MB. Maybe there is a local dealer or private party that has a good old one you can pick up $Cheap.
When I'm using the old backup with IPCop, I see no performance difference. Should suit your needs if only IPCop is the purpose. And maybe the seller would let you try it first.
<snip sig stuff>
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 20:11 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote:
<snip>
My backup box is an old 200MHz Pentium w/96MB. Maybe there is a local dealer or private party that has a good old one you can pick up $Cheap.
When I'm using the old backup with IPCop, I see no performance difference. Should suit your needs if only IPCop is the purpose. And maybe the seller would let you try it first.
<snip>
BTW, several years ago when I first started using IPCop, I ran some tests. My cable provider was a Road Runner (5Mb/s?). All configurations used 10Mb/s ISA ethernet cards of various brands, coaxial cable. Test sites the same and time frames about the same for each download test. Memory about the specific numbers below is fuzzy, but tshould be in the ballpark.
IBM 486/DX2 66MHz Aptiva ISA bus - 477MB/s The Pentium mentioned above (PCI bus) - >= 533 MB/s AMD K3+ 380MHz (running 369MHz) 256MB PCI bus, PC-Chips M571 mobo - >= 599MB/s
Now with RR Turbo and burst mode for first few MB of download, mix of gigabit and 10/100 twisted pair network, I've seen >= 1.2MB/s with the AMD setup and >=900 MB/s with the pentium.
I wanted to mention this so you'd know what kind of flexibility you have if you run up on a really good deal.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 07:08:52AM -0500, William L. Maltby wrote:
BTW, several years ago when I first started using IPCop, I ran some tests. My cable provider was a Road Runner (5Mb/s?). All configurations used 10Mb/s ISA ethernet cards of various brands, coaxial cable. Test
Heh, yeah. When I first got DSL I used a Pentium Pro 200 with 10baseT cards as my router / firewall / infrastucture services / bastion host / etc. At the time it was perfectly fine; 1.5Mbit DSL was easily within its limits. Today with Verizon FIOS I get 20Mbit/s download speeds... faster than my LAN used to be! Eep! Today I use a Linksys WRT54G (running Tomato) for my router/firewall and a seperate dual core Pentium D 3Ghz CentOS 4 machine for the rest of the stuff, as well as file server, backup server etc.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:11 PM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote: <snip>
it, Sunday, and it was supposedly OK. Dell wants about US$237 for a new motherboard, delivered to our house. I think I will wait, until I can buy a very low end box, without a monitor, and everything will have a guarantee. I am going to fix up our backup IPCop Router/Firewall box and use that one, in the meantime. Slow, but it should work....
My backup box is an old 200MHz Pentium w/96MB. Maybe there is a local dealer or private party that has a good old one you can pick up $Cheap.
When I'm using the old backup with IPCop, I see no performance difference. Should suit your needs if only IPCop is the purpose. And maybe the seller would let you try it first.
The box we use for IPCop is a Pentium 233 MHz MMX with 64 MB of RAM.
I am now using my box, with the damaged motherboard. It will run, for a few minutes, or a few hours, and then it dies. When I looked at it, while using M$ Windows, Device Manager showed everything OK. I guess that's why when I ran the Dell Diagnostics on the box, Sunday, it got an OK. Intermittent...
Mark (mhr) really gave me a super idea last night. I will buy him a cup of Colombian Coffee or a Beer, if possible! A bare bones computer. I looked on tigerdirect.com and the thing even comes with a Celeron 2.0 GHz CPU and 1 GB of RAM and a 450 watt P.S. Needs a fan for the CPU, which is not included. Problem is shipping it down here (13.35 pounds according to their web site) and paying for it with a wire transfer, etc. (Their web site says they only accept Wire Transfers for International Orders). It has a PC Chips P53G v.1.0, LGA 775 motherboard, with a VIA Chipset, that I hope will work with Linux...... US$99.99. Something like that would save me a lot of time and work and I would still have our backup IPCop box ready, if I need it. I am going to try to find something like that here in Colombia, which would be a lot easier than buying from TigerDirect.com in Miami. Am in very good shape and very grateful that I was able to copy most or all of my stuff, after this problem began. Backups increase the level of relaxation.... :-)
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