Home Computer Lab
Monday, August 30th, 2010my home computer lab, aka. honeypot. brief run-down on some old iron, 1990’s server technology from IBM, Dell, Compaq, and Sun. 1. 2 x IBM PCServer 330 w/ 2 x PPro @ 200Mhz, 1M L2; 320M w/ EDO; ServeRAID, 4 SCSI w/ striping @ 512byte blocks; Gentoo2007, Apache2, Qmail 2. Dell PowerEdge 4200 w/ 2 x Pentium2 @ 300Mhz, 512k L2; 512M w/ 12 DIMMs; Dell OpenMgr card; redundant power supply; PERC2 w/ 16M NVRAM, onboard battery, 6 disks @ RAID5 w/ 4k blocks; Win2k AdvServer 3. Compaq Proliant 1600 w/ 2 x Pentium2 @ 350Mhz, 512k L2; 256M; Compaq Smart 2 w/ 4M NVRAM, onboard battery, 5 Fast20 SCSI disks @ RAID5 w/ 16k blocks; DAT 12/24G drive; CentOS 4.5, Asterisk, Bacula 4. Sun Ultra30 w/ UltraSparc2 @ 250Mhz, 1M L2; 512M w/ 16 DIMMs; 2 x 4G UltraSCSI disks; Solaris9, Postgres8, OpenNMS Asante 10M hub (great for sniffing! all servers using 10M onboard ethers) w/ uplink to Linksys 54GL (dd-wrt); ambient temp ~75F w/ 2′x2′ exhaust fan; usual load ~2KWatts w/ 3 UPS’s (Decomissioned gear of interest: Digital Alphaserver 2100 - BIOS failure HP 735/125 - not enough time SGI Iris Indigo - not enough time)




