[Sussex] [OT] Solaris and Hardware

[Rob Malpass]

Hi all

Two hardware questions:

1) I've just acquired (generous office chucking stuff out) a Sun Ultra 5 
workstation - but I've never played with one before and my solaris is rusty:
1a) How do I determine its HD size?   Note it's been formatted with Solaris 
8 but I don't know if all HDD has been used.   No idea about Sparc BIOS - 
any ideas?   Also, is du still the best way of determining how much free 
space there is?

2) Networking.   I have two broadband connections via two routers on the 
same network.   Wanadoo have just axed their news server (without telling 
us) so I can't send usenet messages except by paying.   However ntlworld (my 
other ISP) still have one.   Trouble is, if I switch my settings to shove 
all traffic through ntlworld, I can't send mail from Wanadoo (because not 
Wanadoo subnet).   Catch 22 - if I shove all my stuff through Wanadoo - no 
access to ntlworld's news server (wrong subnet).   I realise I could just 
use one PC for news, one for mail etc but that's a bit of a faff which got 
me thinking...

Way back when I didn't have a router I had two NICs in one box - one for the 
home LAN, one for the cablemodem (that's how long ago it was).   What's to 
stop me connecting a second NIC in my main box, configuring one for Wanadoo 
and the other for ntlworld.   Anyone know what would happen?   Would it know 
automatically where to route traffic?

Cheers
Rob

P.S. Sorry this is a bit ot 



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