Howdy folks,
I'm going to take the plunge into Unix by way of building a monitoring
system that would be dedicated to the task of reporting the actions of
the other machines on my very small network. Given my limited Unix
background, I figured the best way to approach this would be to ask
y'all what this box should be.
I've got a 486DX-100 sitting here with 8MB of RAM and a el cheapo PCI
NE2000 clone NIC. I've got 1GB of drive and an ATI VGA Wonder VGA
adapter. A floppy, a Future Domain TMC3260 PCI SCSI-2 adapter, and a NEC
3x SCSI CD round out the box.
So;
- what OS should I use (downloadable from the net would be preferred)
- will the OS support the hardware I described or do I need
more/different/better hardware
- what packet monitor tool would be recommended, I would like something
that I can set filters on and run several filters at once into different
captures if possible
- could somebody lend me a bookmark file of Unix tools links for the
recommended OS
- configuration recommendations would be appreciated
I've got similar functionality in my NT boxes, so its not that I can't
do this in NT. I want to put a dedicated box in place for this now so I
figured I'd give Unix a try at this before I put NT on it. If it works
well, I'll just leave it there, maybe allowing me to give you more
detailed dumps of NT activity that you can actually grep...;-]
A lot of people have been very helpful to me over time, and I have
really appreciated that help, so I ask you to respond to me in private
email once again and make your suggestions. I promise to summarize the
system once its put together and post it to the list.
Cheers,
Russ
Cheers,
Russ
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