[Preston] RE: memory

[John]

Steve (or anybody else who may be able to help),

I have managed to install IPCop on the 586 and I have changed my lan
settings to make the IPCop box the gateway. I can administer IPCop okay from
another machine on the lan in a browser. However, I can't get the modem to
work. When I try to access a web page in a browser, the IPCop page is
displayed and I click on the CONNECT button but then it sits there with the
message "MODEM WAITING FOR CONNECT" or something similar.

I am using an external Hayes Accura V.92 modem plugged into the serial port
on the back of the IPCop machine. I tried seeing if I could get any LEDs on
it to light up by for example typing 'echo "hello" > /dev/ttys00' (I am
assuming that ttys00 is the equivalent of my COM1 port). On the back of the
machine, there is only a port for a printer and the port (9 pin male) where
I have connected the serial interface for the modem. Is it possible that the
port itself is knackered? Is there any way I can test for this possibility?
The only other thing I can think of is that I need some sort of file on the
IPCop machine which contains the correct init and other strings to talk to
the modem. Does IPCop come with a program installed that will let me talk to
the modem in a shell? Is there anything I can run on the IPCop box to test
the modem, talk to it or configure it in some way?

Thanks

John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Taylor" <steve@ramsbottom.net>
To: <preston@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 2:12 AM
Subject: RE: [Preston] RE: memory


>
> > If I can get away with running IPCOP on the Compaq Prolinea 590
> > then what I would like to do is
> > use the PR166 for testing different distros. If I ramp up the RAM to say
> > 64MB, that should be good enough for X shouldn't it?
>
> Yes it will be enough for X, but not the KDE/Gnome windowmanager that the
> mainstream distros use by default
>
>
> > (this is what I love about
> > the list, there is ALWAYS somebody who knows what you need to know)
>
> Fortunately it isn't always me :-)
>
>
> > Is IPCop memory intensive, processor intensive or would you say I/O
> > intensive
>
> IPCop itself is not anything intensive except:-
>
> Squid (caching proxy server) can use as much RAM and HDD speed and
capacity
> as you can give it.
> IPSec (VPN software) will require CPU resources to encrypt the data stream
>
>
> > Thanks again Steve
> > I have found your advice to be very useful indeed....
>
> You're welcome. I am glad to be of assistance.
>
> Steve
>
>
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