[Gllug] OT - general advice required on possible home setup

[Pavel Bradut Boghita]

My home set-up comprises for now of a usb router and a pentiumII-400 pc. I 
have also a couple of older boxes lying around (486, Pentium 75) which I am 
hoping to put to good use at some point. 
I really just want to know in general terms whether what I am proposing is 
feasible and worth looing more into.
I want to connect an old pc to my home lan, boot it with a floppy and somehow 
taking over from my main pc acting as a console. 
(I am running Debian woody)
one of the old pc's (pentium) I want to set up as a ftp server, mainly for 
database back-ups from my main pc., another pc set-up as a mail server (486) 
and the third one (486) to run as a firewall.
So to conclude: router (usb router), firewall (486 pc) and home lan - 
webserver/database (pentium400), mailserver(486), ftp(server).

Is it possible to control all these LAN components only from the main pc 
without the need for a KVM switch ?

Thanks a lot, 

Bradut

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