Home File Server Part 2
Posted by Doug Sun, 24 Jul 2005 21:42:36 GMT
I posted a while back about my Home File Server. When I set it up, I only had one network card. For whatever reasons I just got the second card. Now my “Tiger MP” machine can act as my firewall and router.
I had been using my old IBM ThinkPad. For the last several weeks it’s been crashing like crazy. Every few hours it just locks up. Incredibly annoying since I rely on it to do some outside ssh tunneling from work.
So I’m pretty excited to get my TigerMP box running as a firewall and retire my ThinkPad. After about two hours of running with the TigerMP box as my firewall I loose Internet connection. I’m able to recover by just bouncing the ethernet device connected to the cable modem though. Like I said, my ThinkPad would lock up. Just for grins I recycle my cable modem. I haven’t had any problems since. Makes me wonder if the problem was with my cable modem all along.
